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According to a study published Tuesday, a blood test has been shown to detect five types of cancer years before the diseases can be detected using conventional diagnostic methods. Developed by a Chinese-American startup, the test found cancers in 91 percent of people who showed no symptoms when the blood …

The sad reality of end-stage lung disease is that there are simply far more patients than donor lungs available. This is not only due to the low number of donors, which would be a sufficient problem, but many donor lungs are significantly damaged, rendering them unusable. However, by using a …