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...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...
...used-car superstores. CarMax, which has four outlets in three Southern states and plans to open three new stores this year, is the acknowledged leader of efforts to back up Sharp's words. CarMax customers can leave their children in a supervised play area and use computer screens to scan as many as 1,000 vehicles on a lot. The company says its haggle-free prices are all below the book value set by the National Auto Dealers Association, which serves as the industry standard. Consumers then test-drive their choices and can arrange financing online in 20 minutes...