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New imaging techniques are fuelling an epidemic in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancers that are unlikely to ever progress to cause symptoms or death, warn experts on bmj.com. New technologies such as ultrasound, CT and MRI scanning can detect thyroid nodules as small as 2mm - many of...

A new genetic test for one of the most common forms of breast cancer will help doctors better identify those women who should be considered for chemotherapy, and those who can avoid it, say researchers. A team at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust...

Researchers at the University of Southampton are planning to investigate tests for a breathing disorder that affects babies and children who have Down syndrome while they sleep. They aim to provide the missing evidence so that doctors can introduce affordable and simple routine screening. The...

My sister has on her friends list my ex boyfriends dad and they are quite chummy.....there's a reason there exes ...and then there's my boyfriends friend who posted up naked pictures of his girlfriend who is a friend of mine..then the constant arguments and things blown out of proportion...I...

A new study has yielded some surprising news about breast cancer in the United States: namely, that mammograms are responsible for a rapid increase in breast cancer overdiagnosis. The study, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that breast cancer was overdiagnosed in...

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that $6.7 billion was spent in one year performing unnecessary tests or prescribing unnecessary medications in primary care, with 86 percent of that cost attributed to the prescription of brand-name statins to treat high cholesterol. The...

A new type of diagnostic imaging - which can better differentiate benign lung lesions from those which are cancerous - could be used to prevent unnecessary surgery by enabling more accurate diagnosis of the disease. A study by Belgian researchers, which was presented at the European Respiratory...

Children who are excluded from discussions about their hospital care often feel scared and angry that no-one is listening to them or telling them what is going on. That's why health professionals and parents need to do more to consult them and include them in decisions, according to research...

Two UN organisations have called on governments in Europe and Central Asia to put an immediate end to the practice of placing young children into State-run infant homes. Following the release of two new reports which document violations and abuses of children in state-run homes, OHCHR and UNICEF...

Each year, more than two million critically ill patients are transferred from one hospital emergency department (ED) to another for appropriate care. With the ability to successfully import data from a CD-ROM containing the patient's diagnostic medical images, hospitals may be able to...

Okay, so I'm looking into buying a completely unnecessary, lavish gadget. But not an expensive one. I was kid of looking into the Brookestone brand Boogie Board LCD writing tablet, but i was hoping for maybe something that could do a little more that just write and erase. But for about the same...

sin-free religion? How can the followers of Christianity, who support the unnecessary killing of defenseless animals, and the torturing before their execution, be more worthy of going to heaven then pacifistic Buddhists? Please explain this to me. So, when I ask why Christians eat meat, they say...

Is there any free software or somebody can explain me which ones I need to stop running ?? Thank you

mingled with vocals? I have tried in wave pad sound editor.. But the outcome was not satisfactory.. ... So i wish to remove the noise without affecting the vocals...

One savvy Reddit user seems to think so! Also: hoards of other disgruntled and/or confused customers, according to Google. The scam? Charter's convincing customers that their perfectly good router hardware—including the Linksys WRT54G—just doesn't work with the ISP. More »

I consider it a wonder of nature to see longer days and shorter days between equinoxes. Personally I don't benefit from it. If anything, it goes against my internal clock which brings along mood and sleeping issues. Why does the time the clock says have to intrude with my natural and earthly...

am i the only one who thinks that he shouldn't have thrown any of these ppl in the video, under the BUS? whether youtube is against him and his videos or not, or whether Philly D (Phil DeFranco) had something to do with it, isn't the point. the point is that it was POINTLESS to thro the others...

Business Week reports on a study that finds 1 in 4 MRI and CT scans are inappropriately recommended by doctors. The study appears in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. The researchers analyzed 459 scans at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. "'Of the 459...

Business Week reports on a study that finds 1 in 4 MRI and CT scans are inappropriately recommended by doctors. The study appears in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. The researchers analyzed 459 scans at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. "'Of the 459...

Although Dawn Johnsen -- President Obama's nominee to lead the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel -- is "a highly qualified choice," Senate Republicans "have been raising baseless objections and delaying" the confirmation for more than one year, the New York Times says in an...