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Outdoor foggers with insecticides of the permethrin class help a lot in keeping mosquitoes from invading your outdoor celebrations in the summer, but if you don’t like inhaling these products Christopher Potter, a mosquito expert at Johns Hopkins, says there …
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Mosquitoes aren’t just a nuisance, they transmit disease. So when you bring everyone over for a backyard barbeque keeping them away is a priority. Johns Hopkins mosquito expert Christopher Potter says if you’d rather not pass out the bug spray …
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More and more blood tests to screen for cancer are coming on the market, with a new one looking at proteins in the blood helping identify who is at risk to develop lung cancer. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson …
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People with a history of tobacco smoking are recommended to have screening CT for lung cancer, but many of them choose not to be screened. A new study looks at the ability of a blood test to discern who is …
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A blood test used for population based cancer screening fell short of allowing cancers to be detected earlier, was cost prohibitive and delayed diagnoses for others, a new study shows. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson says both …
