What these buzzy new tests can and can't tell you.

Doctors often use MRI scans as an important step in determining the stage of cervical cancer. Knowing the stage can help them identify whether someone is a good candidate for surgery or if a different ...

A twist on magnetic resonance imaging that does not require gadolinium contrast appears to be as effective as standard imaging at detecting prostate cancers, according to a new study in JAMA. Experts ...

MRIs are an effective diagnostic tool for pituitary tumors. Although MRI scans can miss very small tumors, newer machines are better equipped to detect them. Most pituitary tumors are noncancerous, or ...

Doctors may soon be able to tell just how sick a heart failure patient really is by using a routine MRI scan, thanks to new ...

MRI scans could replace invasive heart tests, as new research shows they can reliably estimate pressures inside the heart to predict if a patient will develop heart failure. The research from the ...

Doctors may be able to assess the level of illness in people with heart failure using an MRI scan, according to research from the University of East Anglia.

Scientists hope their findings will potentially spare tens of thousands of future heart patients from undergoing a procedure.