Word: colon
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...four years, because of the ubiquitous blackberries, cell phones, iPods, gameboys and the Internet. We're using them to chat with people we've never met who don't even use their real names. We're typing things like LOL, c u later, and using a parenthesis and a colon to demonstrate joy, which I find awkward and desensitizing. I'm not an old fashioned guy, but the subtext is that over time it's possible that we may get so clad in electronics and isolation and distance and desensitization that we will not only lose our innocence...
...shortly after being anonymously dropped at an emergency room in rural Washington in 2005. Police investigating the case followed clues to a nearby horse farm, where they found buckets of videos of the man and others having sex with Arabian stallions. Mr. Hands' cause of death was a perforated colon. Because bestiality wasn't illegal in Washington State at the time, no charges were filed, but the scandal made national news...
...This is something people are overlooking. For decades, we have talked longingly about finding a vaccination against cancer. What would you say if we found a vaccine against lung cancer? Colon cancer? Prostate cancer? You'd say, I want to get that...
Nobody looks forward to a colonoscopy, but there's still no better way to detect and prevent colon cancer. There may, however, be a less intrusive alternative to the dreaded test. Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City tested a newly improved version of a noninvasive fecal DNA test to screen for early signs of the deadly cancer. Fecal samples from 162 patients who had undergone colonoscopies in the previous 14 days revealed 35 cases of cancer (compared with 40 detected in the colonoscopies). That translates into an impressive 88% sensitivity rate. The fecal screen, however...
Doctors diagnose 173,000 cases of lung cancer in patients each year, 95% of whom will die from it--more than from breast, prostate and colon cancer combined. But New York--Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers found that low-dose, spiral-computed-tomography (CT) screening drastically improved the odds. In a study of 31,567 people, annual CT screening (about 600 images per scan) detected Stage 1 lung cancer in 412 patients, and when the cancer was surgically removed within one month of diagnosis, their 10-year survival rate was an impressive...