Sarah Blackburn's decision to get a full-body MRI revealed a life-threatening aneurysm, leading to a life-altering surgery Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive biomedical imaging technique that uses a strong oscillating magnetic field to induce endogenous atoms such as hydrogen, or exogenously added ...

The standard mammogram is sometimes used with breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect or rule out breast cancer for people at high risk of the disease. Breast MRIs can detect tumors that ...

An osteophyte is a bony outgrowth or “bone spur” that develops slowly over time in and around joints. Bone spurs often do not cause symptoms. They usually only cause pain if they impinge on other ...

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and facial trauma: can one size fit all? Part 4: 'can the patient see?' Timely diagnosis, dilemmas and pitfalls in the multiply injured, poorly responsive ...

Are ambulatory surgical patients as healthy as we think? Using a self-reported health status questionnaire to identify unsuspected medical comorbidities. Early polyethylene wear and excessive ...