Now engineers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have an answer. A completely nonmagnetic robot driven by air and light can conduct biopsies with more precision than a surgeon?s hand. “It?s the tool for the ...

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

We have various ways of seeing what the brain is up to, from low-resolution electrodes that track waves of activity that ripple across the brain, to implanted electrodes that can follow the activity ...

For nearly an hour, Ernie Lopez sat still inside a narrow MRI tube. “My biggest fear is if my nose itches,” said Ernie Lopez. Lopez underwent a full-body MRI scan through Prenuvo, a company that ...

A routine MRI scan may help a doctor assess a heart failure patient, according to a new study, offering an alternative to invasive, risky procedures that measure oxygen levels in blood. “One of the ...

I suffered an injury while working out and my primary care physician ordered an X-ray. However, after reviewing the results, my doctor recommended that I have an MRI. I am a very anxious person. Can ...

Nicholas Dwork, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, has filed a provisional patent for a technology that could ...