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...guidelines make clear, the key to successful treatment is two-fold. Doctors must first determine, by performing a cat scan, that the stroke is indeed being caused by a clot and not by a leaky artery. (In such cases, called hemorrhagic stroke, clotting is actually beneficial because it stops the loss of blood.) Then the physicians must ensure that less than three hours have elapsed since the stroke's onset. Otherwise the risk of bleeding into the brain is too great...
NASA's announcement also breathed new life into a worthy but largely unappreciated enterprise: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. SETI, as it is called, makes use of computer-monitored radio telescopes to scan the skies and frequency bands in the hope of picking up a message or signal from a distant civilization...
...test to detect if PROSTATE CANCER has spread to other tissues has been recommended for approval by an FDA advisory panel. Called ProstaScint, it's six times as accurate as the CT scan and MRI imaging techniques used today...
Moviemakers don't need to conquer the aliens. They control the screen. And when they do it well, they control us, as cunningly as an ID4 alien running a mind scan on a puny Earthling. Only after the lights come up can we shake off the fear, say, "It's only a movie," and steal an anxious glance at the night...
...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...