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Prenuvo MRI machine Courtesy of PrenuvoWhile celebrating the July Fourth holiday last year on a boat in Tyler, Texas, Dr. Julianne Santarosa received the results from her full-body MRI scan. In addition to full-body scans, Prenuvo offers a head and torso scan for $1,800 and a scan of just the torso for $1,000. Some companies have started offering Prenuvo scans as a perk for employees, which has helped increase access to the technology. Medical experts caution that, in addition to the steep price, full-body MRI scans won't catch everything and aren't meant to replace targeted screenings like colonoscopies and mammograms. He found a radiologist who was offering an early version of a full-body MRI scan.
Persons: Julianne Santarosa, hadn't, she'd, Santarosa, Kim Kardashian, Cindy Crawford, Eric Schmidt, 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki, Tony Fadell, Andrew Lacy, Lacy, it's, Prenuvo, Jasnit, Dr, Kimberly Amrami, Amrami, It's, Prenuvo Lacy, Eduardo Dolhun, Dolhun Organizations: CNBC, Facebook, Google, Nest Labs, Felicis Ventures, U.S . Food, Drug Administration, Association of American Medical Colleges, Columbia University Medical Center, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Mayo Clinic Locations: Tyler , Texas, Prenuvo, Dallas, U.S, Canada, London, Sydney, New York, Los Angeles, Irving, New York City , New York, York, San Francisco, Vancouver, British Columbia
Prenuvo, a company offering preventive MRI scans, raised a $70 million Series A in October. Some say healthy people probably don't need whole-body scans, which can lead to risky procedures. On October 18, the company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, said it had raised a $70 million Series A to provide whole-body MRI scans to consumers. The website says the scans are performed by MRI technologists and analyzed by radiologists trained to read Prenuvo scans. PrenuvoWhole-body MRI scans aren't accessible for everyoneSafavi said whole-body MRI scans have been available for more than two decades for people curious about what might be in their bodies undetected.
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