In an age that prizes information and control, a growing number of healthy people are turning to whole-body MRI scans in search of reassurance — only to find that seeing more does not always mean knowing more. Medical experts and the World Health Organisation caution that the extraordinary sensitivity of these machines transforms ordinary biological variation into medical events, setting off cascades of investigation that carry real costs in money, physical harm, and psychological suffering. Unlike the proven screening programmes that have quietly saved lives for decades, routine whole-body sc
Medical experts warn whole-body MRI scans pose risks for healthy people
Patients undergoing unnecessary procedures face physical harm from surgery and biopsies, plus significant psychological distress from false-positive findings and prolonged anxiety during follow-up investigations.