{"id":211409,"date":"2025-04-14T17:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T22:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/mri-warning-as-study-says-injection-could-cause-deadly-material-to-form-in-body"},"modified":"2025-04-14T17:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T22:05:04","slug":"mri-warning-as-study-says-injection-could-cause-deadly-material-to-form-in-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/mri-warning-as-study-says-injection-could-cause-deadly-material-to-form-in-body","title":{"rendered":"MRI warning as study says injection could cause deadly material to form in body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mri-warning-as-study-says-injection-could-cause-deadly-material-to-form-in-body.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A chemical injected before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/health\/mri-scan-depression-tms-study-b2479300.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> MRI scans<\/a> to help create sharper images may cause some patients to experience a potentially deadly complication in rare cases, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of New Mexico found that gadolinium \u2013 a toxic rare earth metal used in MRI scans \u2013 could mix with oxalic acid found in many foods to precipitate tiny <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/science\/forever-chemicals-nanoplastics-development-breast-milk-b2578607.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> nanoparticles<\/a> of the metal in human tissues.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in the journal <em> Magnetic Resonance Imaging, <\/em> assessed the formation of these nanoparticles associated with potentially deadly health problems in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/health\/cancer-treatment-patients-acupuncture-herbal-medicine-homeopathy-death-rate-higher-a8454791.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> kidneys and other organs.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chemical injected before MRI scans to help create sharper images may cause some patients to experience a potentially deadly complication in rare cases, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of New Mexico found that gadolinium \u2013 a toxic rare earth metal used in MRI scans \u2013 could mix with oxalic acid found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506,1495,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food","category-health","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}