Word: scanning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aborted series is only the latest example of the increasingly hazy distinction between TV advertising and programming. CNBC has announced a series called Scan, a weekly look at technology's impact on people's lives. The show will be sponsored by IBM, which also has final approval over the show's content--ensuring, presumably, that technology's impact will not include things like corporate downsizing and carpal-tunnel syndrome. (Whether IBM's editorial involvement will be noted in the show's credits has not yet been decided.) Scan was commissioned by CNBC's sales and marketing department, though Jack Reilly...
...murder, all right. not much doubt about that anymore. Not after the CT-scan boys at Johns Hopkins got through with the cadaver. Severe blow to the skull with a blunt instrument. Massive internal bleeding. Maybe drugged first. Victim was a female Native American. Probably 12 to 14 years old. Well dressed: had a fancy alpaca dress, striped, and a nice shawl. Silver pin. In pretty good health--"Best set of teeth I've seen in a long time," says Elliot Fishman, a Hopkins doc--until she turned up dead, of course. Been cold for a while when they found...
...traveler was knocked unconscious in a car accident, doctors could punch up his or her medical records to determine the best treatment. With such a system, public-health officials could keep better track of epidemics, for example, or the emergence of a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis. Researchers could scan the population to identify important risk factors that increase a woman's chances of developing breast cancer. AT&T is helping create such a network of linked records for the National Health Service of Britain. Doctors there, however, have strongly opposed the system at every turn. "We don't believe...
That relief was short-lived. Returning to his urologist for a diagnostic computer scan, Milken learned that his lymph nodes were swollen. A subsequent needle biopsy confirmed that the nodes were malignant. His cancer had metastasized, spread beyond the walls of his prostate; surgical removal of the gland would now really serve no purpose...
...screened for heart disease, people are subjected to an exercise stress test or injected with radioactive thallium before undergoing an X-ray. Now research shows that an ultrafast CAT-SCAN can do the job just as well. The scan takes speedy "stop motion" pictures of the heart that spot coronary artery-clogging deposits...