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Esophagus cancer awareness month has just ended, and Richard Battafarano, director of thoracic surgery at Johns Hopkins, says while some people may have this type of cancer and not know it, the majority will have a range of symptoms. Battafarano: …
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Bladder cancer treatment is about to change dramatically based on a trial showing that adding an antibody to a toxic substance is much more effective than current treatments. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer director William Nelson describes this class of pharmaceuticals. …
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Stool based tests to screen for colorectal cancer have been around for some time and work pretty well. Now one of the most utilized ones has been improved, a clinical trial shows. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center …
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A blood test to screen for cancer is something of a Holy Grail, and now a new study describes one for colorectal cancer. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins says while there is still quite a bit …
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Pulse oximeters, vital for measuring how much oxygen is in someone’s blood, don’t work well in people with darker skin, multiple studies have shown. Ashraf Fawzy, a critical care medicine expert at Johns Hopkins, says even the degree to which …
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Just how inaccurate are the devices used to measure oxygen in the blood, called pulse oximeters, in people with darker skin? That’s the question that Ashraf Fawzy, a critical care medicine expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues addressed in a …
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Pulse oximeters are essential to measure someone’s level of oxygen in their blood, yet they haven’t been updated since the 1970s and they’re not well regulated by the FDA. That’s according to Ashraf Fawzy, a critical care medicine expert at …
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