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DETECTION OF DISEASE NEW YORK, Aug. 10. A plan by which heart disease and tuberculosis could be detected at the one X-ray screening was presented at the annual meeting of the National Tuberculosis Association at San Francisco. In a preliminary test at Los Angeles, examination of 70,000 miniature chest X-ray films taken primarily to detect tuberculosis, revealed about 1400 abnormally-shaped hearts. The apparatus has a sharp needle which is inserted under the skin and wired to a device equipped with a photographic screen and a loudspeaker.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22440, 22 September 1947, Page 6
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