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...Newspapers have three attributes that will for a time, make them still relevant. They are low-cost or no cost, they are highly portable, and you can scan through more bits of information on a printed news page faster than you can on a PC, online, on a PDA or on a cell phone. So it's a very efficient means of presenting information. The two attributes it lacks are timeliness, because it is tied to a once-a-day publishing schedule, and interactivity. If those two attributes can be solved technologically, there's a huge, robust future for newspapers...
...patient, the test will feel and look no different from a standard ultrasound, in which a probe is used to peer deep into breast tissue and create an image using high-frequency sound waves. It takes two minutes longer to do a second scan and analyze the results with special software. The initial ultrasound finds the lump, according to Dr. Richard Barr, author of the study. The second scan probes the lump's characteristics, including how much it moves or stretches--which is where the technology gets its name...
...What the Fancy Machines Can - And Can't - Do New medical technology can probe, scan and make sophisticated diagnoses. But it's up to the body to cure
...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...
...normal, but if you look very carefully there's a little disruption of the lace-like pattern of the bone's spongy internal architecture at exactly the spot where it hurts. (This X-ray, by the way, was read as "normal" by the radiologist. Only an MRI or bone scan will reliably show the fracture to someone who has not had the opportunity to examine the patient and focus on the one tiny spot...