James Lawlor was sentenced to a year of supervised release this week for his role in a large-scale scam that involved using fake MRI results to acquire Oxycodone. This comes months after other participants were sentenced for their own involvement.

A. Dean Sherry has been awarded the Gold Medal Award by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) for significant achievements made over the course of his 40-year career. 

LOS ANGELES (May 26, 2015) – Biomedical researchers at Cedars-Sinai have invented a tiny drug-delivery system that can identify cancer cell types in the brain through “virtual biopsies” and then attack the molecular structure of the disease.

Thanks to reduced door-to-needle (DTN) time, MRI was proven to be an effective screening tool for stroke victims before they receive acute treatment, according to findings published in Neurology. 

Patient motion during MRI is costing healthcare providers an estimated $115,000 per scanner per year, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Saskatchewan Health Minister Dustin Duncan has introduced a new bill that would make Saskatchewan the latest Canadian province to allow privately owned MRIs. 

Boulder, Colorado May 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ High Precision Devices, Inc. (HPD) received a joint award with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for commercializing the temperature-controlled spherical magnetic resonance imaging phantom, branded as the HPD Diffusion Phantom Model 128.

The Green Mountain State is in the news for more than the entry of Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders into the 2016 race for president. A pilot healthcare-delivery project there experiments with removing a rule currently requiring patients to get pre-approval from their health plans for MRIs.