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• Cancer Clues in the Breath: Test Could Ease Screening

  

  The right lung is shorter than the left lung to make room for the liver. The left lung is narrower than the right to make room for the heart. Credit: Shutterstock A simple breath test can detect changes in people who have undergone surgery for lung cancer, a new study reports. Researchers found that three chemical markers known as carbonyl compounds, which are gases released when people exhale, were reduced in patients with lung cancer after they had an operation to remove their tumor..

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• Scientists discover unique pattern of hidden brain damage in male soldiers exposed to high explosive blasts

  

  Scientists have identified a distinctive pattern of injury in the brains of eight deceased military personnel who survived high explosive attacks and died between 4 days and 9 years later from their injuries or other causes. The findings published in ...

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• Who May Die? California Patients and Doctors Wrestle With Assisted Suicide

  

  Ms. Allan has already defied some predictions. When her 30-year-old daughter got engaged last spring, she wondered whether she would make it to the wedding. But she did, designing and sewing her mother-of-the-bride dress herself, and baking desserts for the reception.Ms. Allan has spoken to her husband and her two adult children about the decision.“They’ve always been in support of me. They’ve never asked, ‘Are you sure?’ or challenged me. Last year they said there was a new drug available that..

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• Carolinas HealthCare System slapped with antitrust suit

  

  (Story updated at 4:37 p.m. ET) The U.S. Justice Department is suing North Carolina's largest healthcare system, saying it illegally imposes contract requirements on insurers that reduce competition.Carolinas HealthCare System places restrictions in its contracts with insurers that bar them from offering tiered networks that include competing hospitals in their top tiers, the Justice Department and the state of North Carolina allege in a complaint filed Thursday. The system also forbids the ins..

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• Investigator: FDA still taking months to recall tainted food

  

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials failed to force a recall of peanut butter and almond products for three months after advanced DNA testing confirmed salmonella contamination, government investigators reported Thursday.Despite new legal powers to compel recalls and sophisticated technology to fingerprint pathogens, the Food and Drug Administration allowed some food-safety investigations to drag on, placing consumers in jeopardy of death or serious illness, according to the inspector ge..

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• Today's teen troubles: Sex, drugs and texting on the go

  

  The report notes that the prevalence of most health-risk behaviors -- such as riding with a driver who had been drinking alcohol, physical fighting and current cigarette use -- has decreased. Some behaviors and outcomes have not changed, including suicide attempts treated by a doctor or nurse, smokeless tobacco use, having ever used marijuana and attending physical education classes. Some have increased, such as being obese or overweight and not drinking milk.The 2015 survey includes results fro..

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