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...back of your hand is a ganglion and not a malignant tumor, it may not make sense to run the risk that goes with surgical excision. If your baby is born after a very long labor but shows no sign of infection, then agreeing to a spinal tap just to be sure may not always be worth the risk...
...would think doctors have a great advantage in knowing whom to see for their particular problem, and in one sense they do: they can tap into the medical grapevine to find out who has the best reputation and the most experience with a given procedure. They just have to hope that person isn't their colleague down the hall. In a system that can seem infuriatingly impersonal, a little distance is a valuable thing...
...Several other investigations into leaks to reporters are currently under way in Washington, including one to discover who told New York Times reporters about the Presidentially ordered National Security Agency secret program to tap domestic calls to suspected terrorists without obtaining warrants beforehand...
...lets you browse through all of the audio tracks on your iPod, be they protected files or plain-old MP3s. Like its predecessor, the Deluxe comes with a remote control. I especially liked being able to find a playlist with 100+ songs, start playing a song then, with one tap, putting the whole playlist into shuffle mode. That simple maneuver usually takes four or five clicks with the iPod?s own interface. I also liked the fact that, by holding the up or down arrows, you can zip through long lists of artists or songs. Unlike other similar interfaces, this...
...tumors. Eradicating those cells at their source might help control the spread of cancers like leukemia that flare from the blood to the bone marrow and other tissues. Blocking a stem cell's source of nutrients might be another effective strategy for drug development. Unlike normal stem cells, which tap into many different blood supplies for the oxygen and growth factors they need to survive, cancerous stem cells seem to have more addictive personalities, zeroing in on one source and siphoning off everything they need. Exploiting that dependency by finding and cutting off the source would provide another...