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  Chronic Ankle Sprains

  Here's a question for you: What's the most common joint injury people can get? It's an ankle sprain. And if you do twist your ankle, your chances of re-injuring it are very high unless you make an effort to strengthen it. Get the details from Mayo Clinic.

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  Resource: Sports Medicine

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  Freezing Kidney Tumors

  For this year, 2007, the National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 50,000 people will be diagnosed with kidney cancer. Many will have surgery to remove the tumors. But some people are not able to have an operation because of other medical problems. In that case doctors at Mayo Clinic offer another, less-invasive option. It's called cryoablation.

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  Resource: Treatment of Kidney Cancer

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  New Test for Liver Disease

  Every day, doctors use ultrasound, CT scans and MRIs to see inside the body without making an incision. Those tests are great at showing size and structure, but they don't show important physical properties such as tissue stiffness, which, for example, is a sign of fibrosis in the liver. But researchers at Mayo Clinic have developed technology that uses sound waves to see if a patient's liver is harder than it should be — if it's developing fibrosis. It's called Magnetic Resonance Elastography, and it offers a noninvasive alternative to liver biopsy.

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  Resource: Treatment of Liver Disease

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  Screening for Lung Cancer

  Research has shown that for some cancers, screening for early detection most definitely saves lives. Examples are mammograms for breast cancer and colonoscopy for colon cancer. But not all cancers have screening tools that have been proven to work. Let's go to Mayo Clinic to learn more about screening for lung cancer.

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  Resource: Treatment of Lung Cancer