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Dogs' olfactory capacity — they can sniff in parts per trillion — primes them to detect disease.

How Super Sniffer Dogs Are Helping Detect Disease Around The World

Jan 25, 2020
Our canine buddies can do more than play fetch. Turns out dogs' incredible sense of smell is a secret weapon in medicine.
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Diagnostic Gaps: Skin Comes In Many Shades And So Do Rashes

Nov 04, 2019
Google "rash" online, and you'll mostly turn up photos of inflamed bumps on white skin. That's not so helpful for people of color, says a mom who's pushing for a more realistic diversity of images.
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'I'm Not Angry': Alan Alda Says He's Living With Parkinson's

Jul 31, 2018
"It hasn't stopped my life at all. I've had a richer life than I've had up until now," the M*A*S*H actor said as he made the announcement Tuesday on CBS This Morning.
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Scientists Edge Closer To A Blood Test To Detect Cancers

Jan 18, 2018
This blood test detected signs of cancer in 70 percent of people with eight common forms of the disease. But it was much less good at identifying cancer in people in the early stages.
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A single vial of blood can reveal if someone has latent TB lurking in their lungs.

South Texas Fights Tuberculosis One Blood Test At A Time

Aug 04, 2017
Texas has one of the highest rates of TB among U.S. states. A sweeping effort is underway, largely funded by Medicaid, to diagnose and treat people who don't know they harbor the lung infection.
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Last year Solomon Clark had double-bypass surgery to replace the left main artery of her heart.

Hidden Heart Disease Is The Top Health Threat For U.S. Women

May 30, 2016
Many women and even doctors underestimate a woman's heart attack risk, research shows, as they focus on weight and breast health instead. Tiny damaged arteries in the heart may not show up in scans.
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"I'm afraid there's a growing sense that the path to health is through testing," says Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a Dartmouth Institute internist who has written books on the pitfalls of overdiagnosis. Encouraging the worried well to order their own blood test

DIY Blood Tests? There's A Downside To Ordering Your Own

May 12, 2016
It's legal to order diagnostic blood tests without consulting a doctor in many states. But critics say healthy patients can go down a rabbit hole of invasive assays and unnecessary treatments.
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When An Autism Diagnosis Comes In Adulthood

Mar 27, 2016
Growing up, they knew something was different, but nobody put a name to it. For many, it took years to get a diagnosis: autism. Finally hearing that word can be a relief.
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A medical researcher prepares tests for various diseases including Zika.

How Best To Test For Zika Virus?

Mar 10, 2016
Getting an accurate diagnosis is a big hurdle in the current outbreak of Zika virus. There are three kinds of tests for Zika, and each has problems. Scientists are working hard to improve diagnosis.
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Nat Batchelder and his mother, Susan Senator, in Foxborough, Mass.

Abuse Or The Flu? My Autistic Son Couldn't Tell Me What Was Wrong

Mar 06, 2016
My heart fell when a counselor called to say he was worried something bad might have happened to Nat, my severely autistic 25-year-old son. Nat has trouble talking, and was teary. What should I do?
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Errors in diagnosis, such as inaccuracies or delays in making the information available, account for an estimated 10 percent of patient deaths, a blue-ribbon report says.

Report: Errors In Diagnosis Are Common And Will Take Teamwork To Fix

Sep 22, 2015
Mistakes in diagnosis are a factor in 10 percent of patient deaths, the Institute of Medicine says. Better training, computer systems and coordination of care are needed to curb the problem.
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Let's see: fever, headache and dizziness.

Online Symptom Checkers Can't Replace The Real-Life Doc Just Yet

Jul 09, 2015
More than a third of U.S. adults turn to the Internet for help diagnose their illnesses themselves. But how trustworthy are the results?
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How Many Viruses Have Infected You?

Jun 04, 2015
Most tests for viruses aim to detect only one or two. But researchers can now check a drop of blood for antibodies to hundreds of viruses, tracing the history of a lifetime of infections, old and new.
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When combined with results of other neurological tests, and in the context of a thorough medical history, atrophy of the brain (shown here in an MRI scan) sometimes indicates Alzheimer's.

Many Doctors Who Diagnose Alzheimer's Fail To Tell The Patient

Mar 24, 2015
Only about half of Medicare patients are told of the diagnosis by their doctor, a study finds. That compares to 90 percent of patients diagnosed with cancer.
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Johnny Reynolds ignored diabetes symptoms and put off going to the doctor for years when he didn't have health insurance. He was afraid he couldn't afford treatment.

States That Expand Medicaid Detect More Cases Of Diabetes

Mar 23, 2015
Researchers say their study suggests that more diabetes is being detected in particular states because, thanks to Medicaid, more poor people have access to screening and care.
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