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Reuters Health eLine
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A daily look at the top consumer-oriented health-related news stories.
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Lung cancer screening often yields false positives
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Imaging tests used to screen symptom-free people for lung cancer often find suspicious growths that turn out to not be cancer, according to a U.S. government study published Monday.
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Day care sends sick kids home unnecessarily: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Child care centers are too prone to send toddlers home for mild illnesses, doctors say.
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Could ecstasy ease PTSD symptoms?
SAN JOSE, CALIF. (Reuters Health) - Adding MDMA - otherwise known as the party drug ecstasy - to talk therapy may help patients cope with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a preliminary study presented Friday at the Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century meeting.
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Tobacco 'candy' could poison kids: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Thousands of young children are accidentally poisoned by tobacco products each year in the U.S., and new dissolvable tobacco products that resemble candy might pose an additional risk, according to researchers.
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Can you become addicted to tanning beds?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you're someone who lies in a tanning bed too much, you may be likely to suffer from addictive behavior often seen with substance abuse, as well as anxiety, according to a new study.
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Second-hand smoke ups risk of sinus, nasal problems
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Other people's cigarette smoke could be to blame for much of the chronic itchy, runny nose and sinus woes - also known as rhinosinusitis -- that plague one in every six US adults, new research shows.
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Silk implant makes better brain wave recordings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A brain implant made partly of silk can melt onto the surface of the brain, providing an "intimate" connection for recording signals, researchers reported on Sunday.
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Testing lung tumors tailors drug treatments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers said they helped advanced lung cancer patients fare better by matching their tumors to targeted drugs, in what they said is the first significant trial to show it is possible to choose the best drug for an individual patient.
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Chip may detect spreading cancer cells in blood
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have found a way to test blood for the cells that spread cancer and said they might be able to use the method to predict whose cancer will come back after treatment.
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U.S. Medicare panel to weigh prostate treatments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At a time of growing debate over prostate cancer treatments, U.S. Medicare officials will take a closer look at radiation therapy and its ability to reduce deaths and side effects in men.
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