He added: ""In my opinion you save at least two women's lives for every one case you over-diagnose.

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And over time we have used or misused different tools and technologies to better prevent, diagnose, treat and follow up.

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The first will involve a 40 million research project led by GE to better diagnose mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), and to predict the outcomes over time.

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The marked disagreement over the DSM revision underscores the broader challenge in mental health: how to develop better ways to diagnose and treat conditions that are based on subjective symptoms with relatively limited tools and insight into the abnormalities in the brain.

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On Star Trek, Dr. "Bones" McCoy could diagnose cancer just by waving a saltshaker--sorry, a "medical tricorder"--over a patient's body.

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