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Oct. 27--BURLINGTON -- The chipper bright yellow and red spots belie their deadliness. For this patient, they conjured up a hideous diagnosis: breast cancer. But there is a kind of beauty in these pictures, insists Lahey Clinic radiologist Betsy Angelakis. They are derived from a newer technique called Molecular Breast Imaging, or MBI. And while mammograms remain the gold standard for Read more...

A new bathroom scale keeps tabs on your flab, providing a much better measure of your health than weight alone. Tanita's body fat scale accurately measures weight and body fat. Enter your height, age and gender into the scale and it calculates your weight and body fat content in 60 seconds. Electrodes in the scale's foot sensor pads pass a low, safe current through the body. Currents pass Read more...