Instead of years of pain and surgeries, young scoliosis patients literally may be able to straighten out their lives with magnets. It happens more often than you think. One in every 1,000 children ...

SAN FRANCISCO – One in 1,000 children under the age of 10 has early onset scoliosis, a sideways curvature of the spine that can be so severe that patients have a hard time breathing. Until now, ...

For more than a decade, researchers have been developing a lung-imaging method in which patients inhale magnetically aligned helium-3 gas atoms. Like a magnetic dye, the noble gas makes otherwise ...