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Piezoelectric Fingers Key in New Breast Cancer Detector

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Drexel University are developing a new portable, low-cost, radiation-free breast cancer detector that can potentially be used in a doctor's office as a first-line to detect breast cancer.


Noninvasive screening test may detect narrowing in intracranial stents

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Great advances have been made in treating blockages in the arteries of the brain using angioplasty to widen the narrowed artery and a stent to hold the artery open. However, in-stent stenosis, or a re-blockage of the artery ...


Breathing easier

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

If you're an asthma sufferer, make sure the medical history at your doctor's office includes your employment and recreation plans. A new screening tool developed by Tel Aviv University researchers may save you a trip to the ...


A new screening test for chronic abdominal pain

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Evaluation of chronic abdominal pain of luminal etiology is a challenging problem for the primary care physicians and gastroenterologists. The exact localization of lesion to either small or large bowel remains an elusive ...


Researcher develops screening tool to identify patients with prediabetes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A third of Americans with diabetes do not know that they have it, and many more who have prediabetic conditions are unaware that they are at risk. A University of Missouri researcher has created a clinical tool to identify ...