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.

New research from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that belly fat affects women's odds of surviving kidney cancer, but it does not impact the survival rate of men, according to an April 3 news release.

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.

In 2009, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) revised its breast cancer screening guidelines. These changes may be one reason for a continuous decline in breast screening exams in the U.S. since 2010, according to results of a study published by the American Journal of Roentgenology.

A novel system that can calibrate medical imaging biomarkers could be paving the way for MRI to make precise, traceable measurements inside the human body, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced late this March.

A week-old law in Kentucky is barring federally certified radiologists from reading x-rays in state black lung compensation cases, leaving the task to the six pulmonologists who practice in the area, NPR has reported.

By 2030, some 3.5 million Americans are expected to be living with total knee replacements. The price of performing total-knee arthroplasty (TKA) revision surgery continues to rise, costing 60 percent more than the initial replacement. Researchers set out to identify a more cost-effective method.

Researchers from Duke University Medical Center have found that women with greater than minimal background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) at an index MRI face increased risk of developing breast cancer, according to a study published online March 27 in Academic Radiology.