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Well, here was one significant counterclaim lying on the stretcher today. Nick's shortened, turned-in leg announced the problem even before I saw his x-ray. His new old hip was dislocated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Replacement for Hip Replacements | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

...Five beamlines are ready for use, and another four are being designed. One of those, to be devoted to medical imaging, will produce images vastly more detailed than conventional X-ray images. It could also be used in the treatment of patients: there have been promising results from international animal trials using synchrotron X rays to irradiate cancer tumors without affecting healthy surrounding tissue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shedding Light on Matter | 8/24/2007 | See Source »

Remember the supernova, that great burst of sky violence that was supposed to be the finest pyrotechnics show the heavens could offer? Forget it. NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and several ground-based optical telescopes have just witnessed a cosmic blast that makes the supernova look like a popgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Show in Space | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...common exercise of medical judgment. You see it used by the doctor starting antibiotics on a sick child with a negative culture, transfusing a patient whose blood count isn't that low (yet) or putting a cast on when it's clear the bone hurts but the X-ray doesn't show a fracture. (The machines might actually trump us on these - an MRI will usually show up these "invisible" breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Judgment to the Test | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

Their observations confirmed one structural model for quasars. The cloud that had eclipsed the X-ray source was found to be a mere hundredth of a light year from the black hole’s event horizon, or the point at which material is permanently consumed by the black hole...

Author: By Diane J. Choi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientists Observe Eclipse of Quasar in Galaxy | 4/16/2007 | See Source »

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