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...about psychiatry were there definitive tests for its catalog of disorders. For now, its practitioners make judgments on the basis of checklists and observation - solid methodology as far as it goes, but not the same as, say, a blood test for anaemia or an x-ray of a broken femur. In the search for a test offering this kind of diagnostic certainty in mental illness, two Australian researchers believe they've made a leap. Gin Malhi and Jim Lagopoulos, from the department of psychological medicine at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital, report detecting what appear to be abnormalities...
...with trying to undermine Christianity, was taking a shovel, pickax and video camera and trying to physically destroy it. The man who showed us Kate Winslet's breasts in Titanic was boasting that he had brought God to Manhattan in a box and DNA-tested him like a dinosaur femur...
Aside from the fractured femur he suffered skiiing over the holidays, it's the best of times for Arnold Schwarzenegger. For his fellow Republicans in the state legislature, not so much...
...patient Bob has a "bone-on-bone" knee - no cartilage at all between his femur (thigh bone) and his tibia (leg bone). Common arthritis looks white on an on X-ray; Bob's X-ray is a snowstorm. He's as bow-legged as a cowboy, the inside of his bones have ground each other down. Although his cartilage is all gone, there's something even more important missing in his case. He has no pain. Bob, 70, actually comes in this time because he has pulled a muscle. When I examine him, I'm careful...
...surrounding limestone in dilute acetic acid. Since the vats were installed earlier this year, "I've just been hooked," says Scanlon, who at 12 became fascinated with Australian snakes and is now Australia's leading expert on the fossilized type. He holds up the 25-million-year-old femur of one of those giant birds. There's a conspicuous puncture mark, a perfect match for the tooth of an extinct giant crocodile...