Celebrities are getting $2,000 MRI scans to learn about their health. Should you?
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Celebrities are getting $2,000 MRI scans to learn about their health. Should you?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — What if there was a way to peer into your body and spot early signs of cancer and other life-threatening ailments before they became serious? Companies like Prenuvo say their scans can help identify more than 500 medical conditions that can go undetected at a typical doctor’s visit. “You’re going to end up finding a lot of incidental things,” said Dr. Mina Makary, a radiologist at Ohio State Wexner Medical Center. “That’s going to create more psychological stress or trauma for the patient, including additional costs for tests and procedures that may have risks.” Experts also worry that people who undergo MRI scans may start skipping other routine exams, such as mammograms. “But doing so outside of a study makes no sense.” ___ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group.

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Celebrities are getting $2,000 MRI scans to learn about their health. Should you?
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Celebrities are getting $2,000 MRI scans to learn about their health. Should you?

The Independent  

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Do full-body MRIs work? Ask your doctor, not Kim Kardashian
1 year, 6 months ago

Do full-body MRIs work? Ask your doctor, not Kim Kardashian

Hindustan Times  

In an Instagram post last month that has racked up more than 3.4 million “likes,” Kim Kardashian poses in scrubs alongside an MRI scanner, with a caption alerting her followers to the benefits of “this life saving machine.” She makes clear this isn’t an Prenuvo, a San Francisco-based startup launched in 2018, is one of several companies that have begun …

Full-body scans, an unnecessary evil?
1 year, 7 months ago

Full-body scans, an unnecessary evil?

Deccan Chronicle  

Kim Kardashian recently underwent a new full-body MRI scan which claims to be ‘life-saving’, and has promoted the procedure. “Prenuvo scans have not been subjected to clinical trials, and typically screening asymptomatic people with imaging leads to more harm than benefits,” wrote Dr. Tyler Black, a psychiatrist and pharmacologist in Canada, on Twitter. Early cervical cancer can be detected in …

MRI scan detects early tumours in dense breast tissue, could save lives: study
5 years, 4 months ago

MRI scan detects early tumours in dense breast tissue, could save lives: study

Dutch News  

An MRI scan could save the lives of many women with dense breast tissue, a large-scale Dutch study into the benefits of additional MRI screening has found. Of the million women who are screened every year 80,000 have very dense breast tissue which not only makes it difficult to detect tumours but also makes it twice as likely they will …

MRI scan detects early tumours in dense breast tissue, could save lives: study
5 years, 4 months ago

MRI scan detects early tumours in dense breast tissue, could save lives: study

Dutch News  

An MRI scan could save the lives of many women with dense breast tissue, a large-scale Dutch study into the benefits of additional MRI screening has found. Of the million women who are screened every year 80,000 have very dense breast tissue which not only makes it difficult to detect tumours but also makes it twice as likely they will …

MRI screening can increase early detection of breast cancer: study
5 years, 4 months ago

MRI screening can increase early detection of breast cancer: study

NL Times  

Supplementary MRI screening can result in breast cancer being detected earlier in women with extremely dense breast tissue, according to a large-scale study in the Netherlands published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday. With MRI screening, around 300 breast cancer cases per year could be detected earlier in these women, according to the researchers. Eight Dutch hospitals …

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