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17 hours ago ago from Natural Asbestos
A recent in the US is offering hope for testing for lung cancer . US scientists have now developed and already tested a prototype breath test to detect lung cancer . This may enable doctors to detect lung cancer at earlier stages. The results of the US study test was published in the international journal of respiratory medicine Thorax. In the tests, the colour testing device, which is the size of a coin and is surprisingly ...
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18 hours ago ago from Cancer Advances
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8 hours ago ago from AACR News
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5 hours ago ago from OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog
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7 hours ago ago from EON
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23 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Health
Adapted from The Post's daily health blog. Rx: Take health news with a grain of salt It would be nice to think that you could trust journalists to deliver the straight scoop when it comes to covering health news. But sometimes we don't. Journalists' getting health stories wrong is the subject of an editorial published online Nov. 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. It notes two examples of major health stories gone awry. ...
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13 hours ago ago from FOX News
Breaking News Industrial Production Rises More Than Expected in Nov. on Mining, Manufacturing Gains CT Scans Linked to Cancer Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Print The risk of cancer associated with popular CT scans appears to be greater than previously believed, according to two new studies published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The findings support caution against the overuse of CT scans and ...
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