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An older woman and man sit at a round table with a blood pressure monitor between them, the man's forearm resting on the tabletop.

Blood pressure readings explained: how arm position, cuff size and other errors can shift the numbers

Oct 9, 2026

A clinician in a face mask, glasses and blue gloves holds up a chest X-ray film to examine it.

An AI system found 90% of esophageal cancers on routine chest CT scans but just 52.5% of precancerous lesions

Oct 9, 2026

Hands in blue gloves draw blood with a syringe from the inside of an arm that has a teal tourniquet above the elbow.

No blood test differed after fasts past 12 hours, and only a few after short fasts, in 101,148 patients

Oct 9, 2026

Fingers hold a cigarette burned down to a long column of ash against a pale background.

Cash rewards with free medicines doubled six-month quit rates, to 8.8%, in smokers sent for lung screening

Oct 9, 2026