Word: smears
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Deaths from cervical cancer have decreased dramatically in the past 60 years, thanks to early detection by the Pap smear, a screening test that women usually get every year. But a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that for women who are at low risk, the number of additional cancers caught by annual screening is vanishingly small, comparable to the number of men who get breast cancer. This gives statistical support to the advice of the American Cancer Society, which recommended last year that women who have three or more negative tests can be safely screened...
...absolutely not the case. I met with between six and eight analysts and operators from CIA and elsewhere [before his February 2002 trip to Niger]. None of the people in that meeting did I know and they took the decision to send me." Wilson then added, "This is a smear...
...Teabing drew a short breath, as if the word had injured him personally. 'Magdalene was no such thing. That unfortunate misconception is the legacy of a smear campaign launched by the early Church...
...were partial and mostly skeletal. The state of the bodies posed a challenge to forensic scientists, who managed to extract DNA from Laci's tibia, or shinbone, and her baby's femur, or thighbone. They compared it with DNA in cheek swabs from Laci's parents and a blood smear from Scott, which authorities said was obtained under a search warrant...
...Peterson: It's another smear on him that he was going to run into Mexico. And how ridiculous. The kid lives here. They ran him out of Modesto. He can't use his home. They've got his car. Where's he supposed to go? He came to us and he was not running...