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...stroke. Even for specialists this can be a tricky business, as there are two major groups of strokes and each requires different tests and treatments. In a hemorrhagic stroke, a blood vessel bursts and causes bleeding in the brain, which can be detected immediately by a C.T. or MRI scan. In the other, major family of strokes, ischemic, a clot obstructs the flow of blood, starving and killing brain tissue beyond the blockage. This kind of stroke, which Ford suffered in the balance center at the base of the brain, may also be seen by C.T. or MRI, but sometimes...
...read that right, needlepoint patterns. The Los Angeles Times ran a piece last month about the "Napster-like" swapping of patterns online. Evidently, needlepoint enthusiasts scan their paper patterns into their computer and save the file to a common spot on the web. Fellow stitchers print out the file, a copyrighted pattern they normally would have bought in a store...
AILING. DARRYL STRAWBERRY, 38, suspended New York Yankees slugger, after a CAT scan revealed that his colon cancer, diagnosed and treated in 1998, might have spread to lymph nodes near the original tumor; in Tampa, Fla. He will undergo more tests this week. Strawberry is also battling accusations that he violated terms of his probation after an April 1999 arrest on drug charges...
...days now, investigators, police experts and television-news viewers have been watching and rewatching a 28-sec. tape. In that short yet endless sequence, they scan for clues to explain why so many Philadelphia policemen are surrounding a man, stomping and punching him as he lies on the ground, wounded...
...Health column on full-body CAT scans, "Scan or Scam?" [PERSONAL TIME, May 29], TIME ran the image of a radionuclide bone scan instead of that of a CAT scan. The photograph was misidentified by the photo agency. TIME regrets the error...