Credit - Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Lu ShaoJi—Getty Images, cscredon/Getty Images via Canva.com) Calvin Sun was a healthy 37-year-old when a full-body MRI scan showed ...

Sarah Blackburn's decision to get a full-body MRI revealed a life-threatening aneurysm, leading to a life-altering surgery Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

As exciting as full-body MRIs seem, many in medicine are skeptical. But there are useful cases.

For an insubstantial fee, many private clinics in the UK offer full-body MRI scans to detect disease and abnormalities at the earliest stage. Kim Kardashian and Kate Hudson are fans. (Other celebrity ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Emi Gal’s work is personal. He has more than 200 moles on his body, which puts him in the highest risk category for skin cancer, and his mother died from ...

What these buzzy new tests can and can't tell you.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Full-body MRIs promise to help detect cancer and other issues early. But they can also be expensive and unneeded medical tests.

In a world where health often takes a backseat to the demands of daily life, Sarah Blackburn emphasizes the importance of getting checked out — even when you don't have any symptoms. Driven by a ...