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...head to toe, a slightly rigid neck and a refusal to cooperate with an eye exam. All indicators suggested that Sarah had meningitis as a complication of her chicken pox, but the vision complaint didn't fit. A spinal tap was indicated to confirm the meningitis diagnosis, but a CT scan, performed "just to rule out anything evil," showed a small resectable brain tumor pushing on her optic nerves. Sarah recovered well from both her chicken pox and the neurosurgery and remained relatively headache free until she needed glasses in 6th grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Headache Isn't Just a Headache | 6/15/2006 | See Source »

...room. Meanwhile, Ashley promised to work out some of her stress on a treadmill and promised to return after exams so we could reassess her stress and headaches. But the waking up at night bugged me. Most teenagers, once asleep, don't awaken easily. So again I ordered a CT scan "to be cautious," and again it proved a caution worth taking. Ashley's brain tumor required chemotherapy before neurosurgery, but she too has recovered well. She still gets headaches, however, because her sister won't get rid of the hamster, which is indeed the source of Ashley's allergies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Headache Isn't Just a Headache | 6/15/2006 | See Source »

...move-in day, and they will assume some of the responsibilities of the former Prefect Program. In the meantime, Viswanathan has her internship to keep her busy.“I am happy to confirm that Kaavya will be working with the 85 Broads team in Greenwich, CT. on a number of exciting projects,” Janet Hanson, the founder of 85 Broads, writes in an e-mail, adding that Viswanathan will be working on “a variety of projects that have a global scope” during her time there.Last summer, 85 Broads had 12 interns...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Mehta’-Morphosis | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...scan, for instance, is even more complicated, measuring how much energy is being used by your cells in order to give an energy-use mapping of a slice of your body. It is better at showing some tumors than any other imaging method. We have tri-spiral CT scanners, radionucleide bone scanners, EKG-gated CT angiographic scanners. We can test the electrical activity of brain, muscle and nerve. We can test your blood in two thousand different ways. We can test the gases going in and out of your lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Fancy Machines Can ? And Can't ? Do | 5/23/2006 | See Source »

...rough couple of weekends, the No. 17 Harvard men’s lacrosse team (6-4, 3-2 Ivy) put itself back on track in the Ivy League with a 12-4 win Saturday afternoon against Yale (5-8, 1-5 Ivy) at Johnson Field in New Haven, CT. The win was a much-needed turnaround from the previous two weeks in which the squad lost on home turf two of its three League matchups. “After the Princeton loss we all thought we played a good game but we didn’t play a great game...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Forwards Barrage Yale For Win | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

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