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...paying too much attention to the equipment. But there's a quiet revolution going on in the technology of mammography, as analog systems make way for various digital techniques. The promise of digital mammography is that it will give doctors a more detailed picture of breast tissue--and thus improve on their ability to pick out tiny abnormalities. Physicians are beginning to appreciate the added control the technology offers but agree that the procedure is not quite ready to replace film mammography--the gold standard. This view is likely to guide the Institute of Medicine's recommendations on the value...
Screening for breast tumors is a bit like searching for a penny in a sandstorm. Radiologists look for specks of calcium no bigger than a grain of sand; in a certain pattern, the specks could indicate a tumor. The dense tissue of the breast, particularly in younger women, makes it difficult to isolate these spots on fixed X-ray film, so it's not surprising that doctors reading mammograms pick up only about 85% of the tumors that are there...
Digital mammography improves these odds by giving radiologists electronic eyes. The picture is taken the same way--by sending X rays through breast tissue compressed between two small plastic plates. But instead of transferring the X-ray image to film, digital mammograms translate the picture into bits of information that are stored on a computer. The radiologist can then manipulate the image by zooming in on problem areas or adjusting the contrast in bleak, featureless regions to single out suspicious growths...
...quite as glamorous as I had hoped. Last Friday's Donald Trump-run pageant took place in Gary, Ind., which meant it was short on the sophistication of Atlantic City and long on a really disturbing smell. Even worse, a new rule, designed to cut down on breast-augmentation surgery, allowed padding in the bikinis and dresses. It also turned out that I had been invited to judge the preliminaries, which meant that instead of sitting with Karen Duffy, Daniel Baldwin and Ernie (the black Ghostbuster) Hudson at Friday's live telecast of the finals, I spent three days early...
...role of a labor doula varies depending on the needs and desires of the parents. For some people, the support of a doula is more important after the actual labor. Ruth Callahan of New York City owns Doula Care, a service that provides postpartum home services, including help with breast-feeding, new-baby and new-mother care. The doulas might even run errands or baby-sit siblings. "I was much more interested in the transition into motherhood--teaching them about breast-feeding and helping them gather their confidence," says Callahan. Doulas tend to specialize in either labor or postpartum work...