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...the toughest things I do as a physician is deal with uncertainty. Doctors are often only as good as their diagnostic tests, and those tests aren't perfect. Too often we are forced to say, "You might have cancer"--which leads to lots of fear, anxiety and lost sleep. It is also often the beginning of an arduous process of more tests and in some cases surgical procedures. The only way to be absolutely sure about cancer is to examine some of the suspicious cells under a microscope. That means a biopsy. And in the U.S. we perform more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Breast Cancer Test | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...Most of the free online calculators ask users to answer a number of questions related to their family histories, their own medical histories and various behaviors including what they eat, how they drive and how much they sleep. The decidedly ominous Death Clock calculator generates a countdown timer with the number of seconds the user has left to live, but other sites display an age someone with characteristics like the user can expect to attain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Simple Quiz Tell You How Long You'll Live? | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

...online calculators can be useful if they provide suggestions on how to lead a healthier life, Olshansky says. He recommended the Living to 100 life expectancy site, which provides detailed information on changes you can make - everything from what foods to eat to how much you should sleep - based upon your answers to a series of questions. The tools also can help teach the public how to weigh risk factors, said University of Pennsylvania Prof. Dean Foster, co-author of another calculator. "How good is excercise or how bad is smoking?" Foster asks. "Would you walk a mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Simple Quiz Tell You How Long You'll Live? | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

...Ignatieff may have been harmed by several campaign gaffes, including a series of contorted positions on Israel's summer bombing campaign in Lebanon. He stated that he wouldn't "lose any sleep" over collateral damage that included the death of several Lebanese infants, then subsequently declared that Israel had committed war crimes. The blunders demonstrated the uncomfortable reality that although he is a gifted intellectual, his political instincts have never been honed. Ignatieff ended his campaign by stirring up a hornet's nest with his support for a call to recognize Quebec as a "nation" within Canada, and spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will a Harvard Thinker Reinvigorate Canada's Liberal Party? | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

...Zambrano had to work at balancing his homework with the application. His grandparents had recently moved into the master bedroom, where the computer is kept. “My grandparents go to sleep really early, so I only had a couple hours to do both,†Zambrano says...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing Catch Up | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

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