• By Margaret
    Jul 31, 2009 9:20 AM 0
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    The Blind Leading The Blind

    Two years ago, a German gynecologist began training blind women to use their heightened sense of touch to detect lumps in patients' breasts. So far, the 10 trainees have found more and smaller tumors than doctors in 450 cases. [CNN]


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