When ferromagnetic objects enter an MRI suite, they become a serious hazard – here’s how to prevent them from getting in. Nearly every job in the country is subject to certain health and safety ...

(Reuters Health) - There's good news for people with pacemakers and the doctors who treat them. A new study reinforces earlier work suggesting that MRI scans are safe for patients with older devices, ...

MRIs show incredible detail and help doctors diagnose medical issues that were invisible years ago, but people with pacemakers couldn’t undergo MRIs until now. A medical breakthrough makes MRIs safe ...

April 19, 2005 — A growing body of evidence suggests that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be safe for selected patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and pacemakers; however ...

A small study adds to mounting evidence that MRI scans may be safe for people with pacemakers or implanted defibrillators. Manufacturers currently warn against putting the devices into MRI scanners, ...

Germany's Biotronik says it's upping the ante in the ongoing industry race to release more MRI-safe defibrillators and pacers. The next weapon: more scanning options. The Berlin-based cardiac company ...

What’s the difference between MRI-safe and conventional pacemaker leads? A little thicker, certainly, but otherwise (at least on the surface), not too much: The recently-approved MRI-safe ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Medtronic said Monday that it has been cleared to market a heart defibrillator implant that can be safely used in an MRI scanner. Medtronic's Evera MRI SureScan is designated "MR ...

VIENNA — Patients implanted with a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (S-ICD System, Cameron Health and Boston Scientific) can safely undergo MRI, according to a study of the first ...

MRI machines come with a variety of safety warnings. Perhaps most importantly, you have to be very careful not to take ferrous metal objects anywhere near them, since strong magnetic fields can send ...

Expecting mothers who undergo an MRI in their first trimester shouldn’t have much to worry about if it was a standard one, according to a recent study of more than 1.4 million women. But an MRI that ...

DALLAS (Ivanhoe Newswire) – For years, older model, so-called legacy pacemakers were not compatible with MRIs because the metal in the pacemakers caused the magnetic resonance imaging devices to fail, ...