Communities are failing to follow guidelines that ensure women at an increased risk for breast cancer receive additional MRI screening, according to research from the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine.

A 32-year-old man died on Jan. 27 after being sucked into an MRI chamber at BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai, India. The civic investigation into the man’s death has not yet released its official report, but a senior official with knowledge of the investigation said at least part of the blame goes to “overburdened staff and facilities at hospitals.”

A team of researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have developed a new method for cardiac MRI that can be complete in just 90 seconds. The technique also allows patients to breathe during testing, with promises of more accurate, more reliable results.

As radiology practices grapple with the specialist shortages and drawn-out wait times that accompany a nationwide push for more specialized MRI, one Michigan practice is successfully solving both problems.

An adaptation of digital mammography could cut image acquisition times and provide a new screening method to patients unable to undergo breast MRI, but added time commitments could make the technique difficult to implement in clinical practice, a case study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology suggests.

High-risk patients with any amount of background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) beyond the minimum on screening MRI have an increased risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new study published by Academic Radiology.

Scientists at the University of Extremadura in Badajoz, Spain, have found another use for MR imaging—but it has nothing to do with medicine, the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology has announced.

In one of Western Europe’s most overweight areas, British officials are struggling to tackle a growing obesity epidemic that’s barring hundreds of patients from receiving MRI exams, the BBC reported this week.