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Deborah Rhodes: A Test That Finds 3x More Breast Tumors, and Why It's Not Available To You

Working with a team of physicists, Dr. Deborah Rhodes developed a new tool for tumor detection that's 3 times as effective as traditional mammograms for women with dense breast tissue. The life-saving implications are stunning. So why haven't we heard of it? Rhodes shares the story behind the tool's creation, and the web of politics and economics that keep it from mainstream use.

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TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference on the West Coast each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TED Talks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.

8 Benefits of Feeling Sick

09/21/2015

The Green Divas

by Lynn Hasselberger | The Green Divas Overall, I’m uber healthy. Occasionally, I feel just on the edge of being sick. Unwell. Sick-ish. No on-my-deathbed kind of sick. No fever, wheezing,... read more

Don't Worry Like Mark Twain

04/08/2014

Lorraine LoBianco

(Mark Twain...looking worried) This week’s reality check - or, as I like to call it, “whack upside the head with the Frozen Fish of Reality” (Google Monty Python's Fish Slapping Dance for the... read more