Posts tagged MRI

• Experience Counts When Representing Victims of Brain Damage

  Michael Phelan | September 24, 2009 11:35 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1.4 million people suffer traumatic brain injuries (TBI). This number is a conservative estimate as brain injuries often go...

• High-tech MRIs - Helpful or Unnecessary?

  Carrie Strasser | August 18, 2009 11:46 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Last week, Time magazine reported that women who are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer and who rely on results from high-tech MRIs, usually choose more aggressive and sometimes unnecessary...

• Transdermal Patches Could Cause Burns During MRI

  David Mittleman | August 18, 2009 11:38 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, is an incredibly useful diagnostic tool. These scans offer unparalleled imaging of soft tissue, making MRIs particularly helpful in identifying and treating...

• MRI Dye Linked to Disease

  Beth Janicek | July 14, 2009 6:15 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Another person has joined the 516 other plaintiffs in a massive lawsuit against the pharmaceutical companies that make certain dyes used for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The dye is used...

• Tattoos, Nicotine Patches And Other Medical Devices May Pose Problem During M.R.I.s

  Greg Webb | March 31, 2009 5:44 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Federal health officials warn that patients who wear nicotine or other drug patches during M.R.I. scans may get burned due to the machine’s huge magnet that can heat tiny metal elements found...

• MRI's And Transdermal Drug Patches Don't Mix

  Mike Bryant | March 20, 2009 9:52 AM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA issued a warning this week that covering the risk of skin burns in patients wearing transdermal drug patches who are undergoing MRI scans. Most of the patches are sold by prescription except...

• Diagnostic Testing After A Back Injury: Does It Help?

  Mike Bryant | February 23, 2009 9:48 AM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Often we will have cases and the defense will ask if X- Rays or MRI's were done. The implication being that if they weren't that the injury wasn't a big deal. If they were done, the next question...

• Can a Photograph Save Your Life?

  David Mittleman | December 05, 2008 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Doctors who read diagnostic images - such as x-rays, MRIs, and CT scans - see a lot of pictures over the course of their day. One picture they usually don’t see, however, is an actual...

• Hope For Patients With Gadolinium-Induced Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis?

  Brenda Fulmer | October 31, 2008 10:39 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A rheumatologist once told me that scleroderma patients were the “guinea pigs” of the medical world. These are the patients who are suffering the most horrible of diseases for which...

• MRI Dye Might Be Toxic According to Recent Study

  David Mittleman | October 25, 2008 2:02 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  According to recent studies, a dye commonly used for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) tests can be extremely harmful to the body and could potentially cause...