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A doctor works with a patient in a CT scanner at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, N.H. New lung-cancer screening guidelines recommend annual scans but only for an older group of current or former heavy smokers. The guidelines were published online Sunday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (Associated Press)
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The high bid so far for a vial that once held a sample of President Reagan's blood and the accompanying lab paperwork is $5,081. (PFC Auctions)
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A man (top) is taken into the ambulance, known as a "booze bus," dedicated to keeping drunk people out of trouble on the streets and out of hospital emergency rooms, in the Soho area of central London. Binge drinking have caused a spike in health care costs and public displays of drunkenness. A policeman on patrol directs a young woman (above) in Soho. (Associated Press)
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An oil on canvas portrait by Giorgio de Chirico of Dr. Albert C. Barnes hangs at the Barnes Foundation. The art collection opened to the public at its new location on Saturday. The Barnes expects 250,000 visitors to see the collection during its first year. (Associated Press)
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In this image released by Fox, Hugh Laurie portrays Dr. Gregory House in a scene from "House, M.D." The Fox medical drama concludes its eight-season run on Monday, May 21, 2012, with a finale at 9 p.m. EDT, preceded by a one-hour retrospective. (AP Photo/Fox, Isabella Vosmikova)
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Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. (The Washington Times) **FILE**
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**FILE** Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks May 2, 2012, in Chantilly, Va. (Associated Press)
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Brian McNamee, former strength coach of retired baseball great Roger Clemens, leaves federal court in Washington on May 15, 2012, after testifying at Clemens' perjury trial. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Syrian soldiers are seen through the damaged window of a military truck that was hit by a roadside bomb in Daraa, Syria, on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. The blast occurred just seconds after a team of U.N. observers passed by. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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**FILE** Soldiers from the Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF), one holding a piece of wood representing a weapon, engage April 30, 2012, in urban operations training in a mock urban setting nicknamed "Little Mogadishu" at the Singo training facility in Kakola, Uganda. (Associated Press)
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This undated photo provided by the family shows Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection that forced doctors to amputate most of her left leg. They warned she would likely lose her other foot and both hands. (Associated Press/Copeland Family)
