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Whole-body MRIs are on the rise — and my family health history pushed me to get one. Here’s what I learned.

Whole-body MRIs are on the rise — and my family health history pushed me to get one. Here’s what I learned.

EastIdahoNews.com reporter prepares for a whole-body MRI scan at a Prenuvo clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. | Jordan Wood, EastIdahoNews.com SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — My dad had a widowmaker heart attack in his 50s. The BRCA breast cancer gene runs in my mom’s family. Fortunately, my father survived his heart attack, and my mother hasn’t been diagnosed with cancer, but doctors have …

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Expert outlines grim reality of MRI’s dangers after man with 20-pound chain dies in machine mishap: ‘Snap his neck’

Expert outlines grim reality of MRI’s dangers after man with 20-pound chain dies in machine mishap: ‘Snap his neck’

The Long Island man killed in a freak MRI accident stood no chance against the machine’s magnetic field that pulled him in with enough force to “snap his neck,” according to an expert in the field. A 20-pound chain that Kevin McAllister was wearing around his neck would have been yanked into the machine at Nassau Open MRI with “hundreds …

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