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• Colon cancer screenings can stop at 75
The task force's stance on CT colonography and the stool DNA test is contrary to recent recommendations from the American Cancer Society, as well as radiology and gastroenterology groups that say the newer tests are effective and could encourage ...
• Nobel honors work on glowing jellyfish protein
This is a technology that has literally transformed medical research," said Dr. John Frangioni, an associate professor of medicine and radiology at Harvard Medical School. "For the first time, scientists could study both genes and proteins in living ...
• Computers help docs see breast cancer on X-ray
In the United States, it's just not practical in most practices to do double readings by physicians," said Lee, who is head of the American College of Radiology's Breast Imaging Commission. "These results are reassuring to me that single reading with ...
• New capsules may help Type 1 diabetics
Aravind Arepally, an assistant professor of radiology and surgery at Hopkins, said in a telephone interview. Their findings were published online Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine. The porous capsules had openings large enough to let insulin out ...
• Shorter radiation works for breast cancer
The treatments took only one to three weeks, as opposed to five to seven weeks for standard therapy, two teams of researchers told a meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in Boston on Monday. Canadian researchers ...