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Helium helps detect damage smoking has on the lungs

A helium-based imaging technique may help doctors detect smoking-related lung damage in healthy smokers sooner and more accurately than existing imaging methods, according to a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 at 10:39 pm and is filed under Research, Early Detection. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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