An advantage of whole-body MRIs over CTs is that they use magnets and radio waves, which eliminate the type of radiation ...

Full-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans allow providers to examine multiple areas of your body at once, making them helpful in diagnosing, monitoring, and screening for health problems.

With celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton singing the praises of full-body MRI scans, a growing number of people are coughing up the cash for the preventive measure — but is the ...

Lacy discovered people had been experimenting with preventive, radiation-free, full-body MRI scans. “One [place] was up in Vancouver, Canada, so I went and did a scan there,” he says.

What was supposed to be a preventive scan turned into a nightmare for a young mother when it revealed a “ticking time bomb” lurking in her body. “I had a full-body MRI just for fun.

Bindman, the director of the Radiology Outcomes Research Laboratory and a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the ...

With celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton singing the praises of full-body MRI scans, a growing number of people are coughing up the cash for the preventive measure — but is the ...

Calvin Sun was a healthy 37-year-old when a full-body MRI scan showed a cyst in his kidney. Sun saw a urologist who was cautiously optimistic that it wasn’t cancerous and offered him a surgery ...

Credit - Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Lu ShaoJi—Getty Images, cscredon/Getty Images via Canva.com) Calvin Sun was a healthy 37-year-old when a full-body MRI scan ...

Calvin Sun was a healthy 37-year-old when a full-body MRI scan showed a cyst in his kidney. Sun saw a urologist who was cautiously optimistic that it wasn’t cancerous and offered him a surgery ...