The same week British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix pledged $11 million to expand MRI usage across the Canadian province, the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) released its medical imaging inventory report for 2017, noting a 65 percent increase in MRI units in the past decade.

When primary care physicians refer adult patients for MR imaging for traumatic knee symptoms, it provides no additional value and leads to higher healthcare costs, according to a new study by Dutch researchers published in Radiology.

MRI might be best used as a critical diagnostic tool for radiologists, but outside of the specialty, researchers have used the powerful machines to image patients’ brains while they do things from play video games to sing opera.

A coin-sized gadget that would allow for simultaneous MR imaging has received a $228,325 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

North America’s first MRI simulator—a downsized model of enclosed scanners clinicians are used to—has been installed in a Montreal hospital, and officials are saying it’s already helping kids wind down and skip anesthesia ahead of their own procedures.

CMS published a decision memo this week finalizing its proposal to cover MRI scans for Medicare beneficiaries with implantable cardiac devices such as pacemakers and cardioverter defibrillators.

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.”