Update: European Union Commission ban on MRIs postponed

Leading scientists were able to convince the European Union Commission of the lack of scientific evidence behind its Directive that would have outlawed the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for patients beginning this spring. JFS readers will remember that fears over electromagnetic fields had led to a Directive setting ‘safe’ exposures so low that they would have made MRIs illegal.

The EU has announced a four-year postponement — until April 30, 2012 — to allow time to consider the scientific research.