Cancer appears to give off a signature smell of volatile organic compounds that can be detected using the right technical medicalkit - and perhaps even dogs.
"Go to your favorite pharmacy and walk up and down the aisles, and take the things off the shelf you'd like to have at home, " she advises, adding that Imodium and antibiotics are essential additions to any travel medicalkit.
So, to make life easier for the sick, the school's medical center has distributed what it calls a "flu kit, " which includes a mask and a home-care instruction sheet, Denning said.
