Full-body MRIs are all the rage. We take a look at three major companies offering such testing.

What these buzzy new tests can and can't tell you.

An advantage of whole-body MRIs over CTs is that they use magnets and radio waves, which eliminate the type of radiation linked to cancer. But that doesn’t mean they’re risk-free or the right choice ...

As exciting as full-body MRIs seem, many in medicine are skeptical. But there are useful cases.

Full-body MRIs promise to help detect cancer and other issues early. But they can also be expensive and unneeded medical tests. Doctors gave us a good framework for assessing whether a full-body MRI ...

Whole-body screening MRI (wb-MRI) for asymptomatic patients has become a relevant topic for U.S. cancer centers. There is a growing number of for-profit centers offering wb-MRI scans for asymptomatic ...

When it comes to detecting cancer, you want the fastest detection possible in order to treat it accurately and in a timely ...

For the health conscious or worry prone, whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sounds enticing. What better way to protect your body and ease your mind than to look deeply into your tissues and ...

Step by step, little by little, we are learning how to act on this new staging information,’ one investigator says.

Doctors have been arguing over the utility of preventive full-body MRI scans for decades. In 2004, it became a central plot point on an episode of the TV show "Scrubs." "I am considering offering full ...