Breathalyzer test detects lung cancer: study
Scientists in Israel have devised a portable breath tester that detects lung cancer with 86 percent accuracy, according to a study released Sunday.
Bio & Medicine
Aug 30, 2009
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Growing evidence of marijuana smoke's potential dangers
In a finding that challenges the increasingly popular belief that smoking marijuana is less harmful to health than smoking tobacco, researchers in Canada are reporting that smoking marijuana, like smoking tobacco, has toxic ...
Biochemistry
Aug 5, 2009
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Report: Most Americans in areas with unhealthy air
(AP) -- Sixty percent of Americans live in areas with unhealthy air pollution levels, despite a growing green movement and more stringent laws aimed at improving air quality, the American Lung Association said in a report ...
Environment
Apr 29, 2009
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Nanosensor Arrays 'Smell' Cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2006 researchers established that dogs could detect cancer by sniffing the exhaled breath of cancer patients. Now, using nanoscale arrays of detectors, two groups of investigators have shown that a compact ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 27, 2009
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U-M researcher's idea jells into potential new disease-detection method
Relying on principles similar to those that cause Jell-O to congeal into that familiar, wiggly treat, University of Michigan researchers are devising a new method of detecting nitric oxide in exhaled breath.
Biochemistry
Mar 23, 2009
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Breath or urine analysis may detect cancer, diabetes
(PhysOrg.com) -- A future sensor may take away a patient's breath while simultaneously determining whether the patient has breast cancer, lung cancer, diabetes or asthma. A University of Missouri researcher is developing ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 10, 2009
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Researchers develop new platinum-based anti-tumor compound
Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at Wake Forest University in collaboration with colleagues at the Wake Forest University Health Sciences Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new class of platinum-based ...
Feb 11, 2009
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Researchers identify another potential biomarker
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have demonstrated that a recently discovered class of molecule called microRNA (miRNAs), regulate the gene expression changes in airway cells that occur with smoking ...
Jan 13, 2009
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