To Save a Life...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - His face was distraught with nothing but fear and shock as Marines and Sailors lowered him to the floor of Camp Taqaddum Surgical. He found himself in a strange place around a number of people he could not understand. Despite all the chaos, Navy Cmdr. Pamela Harvey, who was serving in Iraq as an emergency room physician at the time, knew that this man's l...

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Imaging Advance Tracks Prostate Cancer in Lymph Nodes...

TUESDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- A new imaging technique, based on an engineered version of the common cold virus, may help doctors detect the spread of prostate cancer to the lymph nodes earlier.

This, in turn, could help guide more effective treatment decisions, said the authors of a study published in the July 11 edition of Nature Medicine.

"It would represent a treatment adv...

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