{"id":14016,"date":"2026-06-18T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14016"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:00:15","slug":"researchers-say-whole-body-mri-companies-are-inflating-the-scans-medical-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14016","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Say Whole-Body MRI Companies Are Inflating the Scans\u2019 Medical Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/06\/whole-body-mri-medical-research\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent JAMA editorial from two radiologists argues that elective whole-body MRI scan companies are misleading consumers about the benefits of said scans. The radiologists argue the MRIs are more likely to trigger harmful downstream procedures than they are to save lives. Not surprisingly, the three most prominent companies offering these scans denied the charge.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/06\/whole-body-mri-medical-research\/\">Researchers Say Whole-Body MRI Companies Are Inflating the Scans\u2019 Medical Benefits<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent JAMA editorial from two radiologists argues that elective whole-body MRI scan companies are misleading consumers about the benefits of said scans. The radiologists argue the MRIs are more likely to trigger harmful downstream procedures than they are to save lives. Not surprisingly, the three most prominent companies offering these scans denied the charge&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}