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Doctors to older, heavy smokers: Get CT screening for lung cancer

November 3, 2021 at 6:03 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stepping into the debate over who should be screened for lung cancer, a leading medical specialty group issued new guidelines on Tuesday recommending that doctors offer...

Doctors to older, heavy smokers: Get CT screening for lung cancer

May 13, 2019 at 11:41 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stepping into the debate over who should be screened for lung cancer, a leading medical specialty group issued new guidelines on Tuesday recommending that doctors offer...

Your child’s brain on math: Don’t bother?

November 3, 2021 at 5:59 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Parents whose children are struggling with math often view intense tutoring as the best way to help them master crucial skills, but a new study released...

Your child’s brain on math: Don’t bother?

May 13, 2019 at 11:39 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Parents whose children are struggling with math often view intense tutoring as the best way to help them master crucial skills, but a new study released...

Gut bugs are implicated in heart attacks and stroke

May 13, 2019 at 11:38 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of heart attack victims every year have none of the notorious risk factors before their crisis - not high cholesterol, not unhealthy triglycerides. Now the...

Lab-made rat kidneys raise hopes for dialysis patients

August 24, 2021 at 2:34 a.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered yet another way to make a kidney - at least for a rat - that does everything a natural one does, researchers reported...

Lab-made rat kidneys raise hopes for dialysis patients

May 13, 2019 at 11:36 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered yet another way to make a kidney - at least for a rat - that does everything a natural one does, researchers reported...

See-through brains promise to clear up mental mysteries

May 13, 2019 at 11:35 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - If Dr. Karl Deisseroth were an architect, he might be replacing stone or brick walls with floor-to-ceiling glass to build transparent houses. But since he is...

Just say don’t: Doctors question routine tests and treatments

August 23, 2021 at 11:41 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Now there are 135. That's how many medical tests, treatments and other procedures - many used for decades - physicians have now identified as almost always...

Just say don’t: Doctors question routine tests and treatments

May 13, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Now there are 135. That's how many medical tests, treatments and other procedures - many used for decades - physicians have now identified as almost always...

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