Do you know what a culvert pipe is? If not, I can save you a few minutes of googling. It’s a 12- or 18-inch-wide pipe, usually made of corrugated steel or plastic, that goes under a driveway that ...

The thought of an MRI scanner, a coffinlike, hard-plastic tube with a ceiling just inches above the patient’s eyes, has long filled Patrice Mitchell with dread. The 64-year-old freelance editor and ...

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 ...

Engineers at the University of Twente have developed a new biopsy robot made from 3D-printed plastic. This allows it to operate inside a MRI scanner so accurate biopsies can be taken with real-time ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swiss researchers who swapped out some of the parts of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner said on Wednesday they not only made it more efficient, but also less claustrophobic.

LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 04: Pitcher Jonathan Broxton #51 of the Los Angeles Dodgers reaches for the rosen bag after giving up a base hit to Pat Burrell of the San Francisco Giants in the ninth ...

Question: I am a middle-aged runner who recently developed a painful swelling in my knee. I went to an orthopedic surgeon who told me I probably have a Baker’s cyst, and he wants to do an MRI study to ...