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...CAT E. LAVERS...
...stuffed organs. Toy companies are supposed to be like this--creative places where adults dream up wacky stuff for kids. "I make the kinds of toys I love to play with," explains the 29-year-old founder, Laurence Schwarz, standing next to a showroom of Harry Hairballs, a cat whose stomach contains fish bones, slippers and hair balls. "We don't put this stuff through focus groups or watch kids play with it behind glass. This is from the guts, literally...
...screening test for finding lung cancer early. (Chest X rays almost always catch it too late.) But Dr. Claudia Henschke of the Weill Medical College at Cornell University in New York City and her colleagues believe they have found a way to identify very small tumors with low-dose CAT scans. It's a new approach that all smokers and ex-smokers, regardless of race, should keep...
First the CAT scan picks up suspicious-looking lesions in the lungs. Then a radiologist determines whether those nodules warrant further investigation. Most of the time, that means waiting a couple of weeks or months to see if they grow (only 1 out of 10 lesions is cancerous). Sometimes it means undergoing a biopsy. "We found that people were willing to wait," Henschke says, in order to avoid potential complications from unnecessary surgery. The still experimental scan costs $300 and is so far available only in New York City, Rochester, Minn., and Tampa, Fla. But if it becomes the next...
With the success Harvard has had this year, none of these numbers should frighten it. After all, if it can survive a hurricane, why should it be afraid of an overgrown cat...