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Kevin Conlin has a problem. Physicians in Wichita have been catching a bug. An entrepreneurial bug. One that compels them to build highly specialized hospitals, diagnostic imaging facilities stocked with next-generation scanners, and same-day surgery centers that have hotel-like touches. Conlin, CEO of the $1.2 billion...
It is called elasticity imaging and, unlike a biopsy, involves no needles or scalpels. Yet it appears--on the basis of an initial study--to be remarkably good at distinguishing benign lumps from cancerous growths.
It all sounds a little vague and subjective, but in Barr's hands, it seems to work. In a study of 80 women with 123 suspicious lumps in their breasts, elasticity imaging scored remarkably well. Subsequent biopsies showed that it correctly identified 17 out of 17 cancerous lesions and 105...
But in fact creationism and I.D. are intimately related to a larger unresolved question, in which the aggressor's role is reversed: Can religion stand up to the progress of science? This debate long predates Darwin, but the antireligion position is being promoted with increasing insistence by scientists angered by...
Just to show that this is a complex field, Mondraty's coauthor sees things slightly differently. "I think what we've observed," says Sachdev, "is a functional abnormality that probably follows, rather than precedes, the development of anorexia." The pair plan to conduct a follow-up study on the 10...