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Meanwhile, Google is continuing to scan books from Harvard collections that are not under copyright, said Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, who is director of the Harvard University Library...
...holes with knives and axes to reach the open air. Emergency workers hovered from house to house, plucking out the living, leaving bodies behind. The potential for a disaster in the air was such that pilots told TIME reporter Adam Pitluk, who was embedded with them, to help scan the skies for stray news helicopters and sightseers in Cessnas among the flocks of military craft. "It was like a pickup game," said Lieut. Commander Bill Howey, a Navy helicopter pilot. "You got three or four different types of Army helicopters, same for the Navy. Then there's Customs, Coast Guard...
...future, however, may belong to whoever can figure out how to make all these imaging technologies work together. One approach combines the anatomical accuracy of CT imaging with the functional information provided by a type of nuclear scan called positron-emission tomography (PET). Still in its early days in the clinic, PET/CT could help doctors see how much of the cardiac muscle is still alive after a heart attack and whether a bypass operation, balloon angioplasty or stent surgery would help damaged areas recover...
...surprisingly then, the new cardiac scans are helping to fuel a more aggressive focus on prevention. If a cardiac scan shows your doctor that you have mild coronary artery disease, then, in addition to trying to get your LDL cholesterol level under 70 mg/dL, he or she is probably going to put you on a daily aspirin regimen and make sure your blood pressure is nice and low. "Conversely," says Cannon, "if you have a scan and you're normal, you don't have to start taking five different medications...
Meanwhile, there is still an issue of professional turf left to resolve. High-tech imaging--particularly CT scanning--has long been the purview of radiologists, many of whom don't take kindly to cardiologists encroaching on their territory. After all, it has happened before. Radiologists used to perform lots of cardiac catheterizations but have pretty much given up that technique to heart specialists, in large part because they were simply outnumbered. As for who is best at reading cardiac CT scans, cardiologists argue that they have a better understanding of the heart's anatomy and function, while radiologists point...