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...there are other, more intractable problems. "The seemingly innocuous blood test," notes Dr. Steven Woolf, a professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, "can set in motion a cascade of follow-up tests, some of which are not innocuous at all." Take, for example, the CA-125 test, pitched by some entrepreneurs as a possible way to detect ovarian cancer. Studies have shown that the vast majority of positive CA-125 results are false, which is why few physicians recommend it. Yet InterFit Health in Houston still offers the CA-125 test--albeit with caveats...
Giving people what they want, however, is not always a good idea in medicine. A significant number of women with a positive CA-125, explains Woolf, will need to have those results verified surgically--or by the insertion of a fiber-optic scope into the abdomen. Any surgical procedure carries a risk of serious complications, so offering the CA-125 screen to consumers is likely to increase the incidence of useless operations--and associated complications...
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...with only one film behind him, he was one of the youngest directors to ever receive final cut on a film—an honor usually reserved for older and more experienced filmmakers. He grew up in Studio City, CA and from a young age loved and knew he wanted to make movies. He attended less than a week of film school at NYU before dropping out. Yet despite his relative inexperience and anonymity (his first film was the little seen but fascinating character study Hard Eight a.k.a. Sydney), in 1997 writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson burst onto the scene with...
Note: Exact boundaries and status of some recently designated provinces, including Nuristan (ca. 1991) and Khowst (ca. 1995), remain unclear. Several provincial capitals were changed during the mid-1990s...