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...government believes that use of the scanner will greatly improve airline safety. A full body X-ray scan can reveal carefully concealed plastic weapons or liquid explosives that metal detectors miss. A 30-second scan in place of a pat-down or strip search would also greatly expedite travelers’ painfully slow passage through security...
BEFORE MAGNETIC RESONANCE imaging (MRI) became standard in the 1980s, doctors had two ways of looking inside the human body: the not-always-precise X-ray, which exposed patients to radiation, and surgery. Physicist Paul Lauterbur, a co-winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize, helped pioneer the use of MRI technology-- previously used largely to examine chemical structures of substances--to obtain clear, detailed images of human tissue. Doctors now prescribe more than 60 million MRI exams annually...
...would feel a lot better about psychiatry were there definitive tests for its catalog of disorders. For now, its practitioners make judgments on the basis of checklists and observation - solid methodology as far as it goes, but not the same as, say, a blood test for anaemia or an x-ray of a broken femur. In the search for a test offering this kind of diagnostic certainty in mental illness, two Australian researchers believe they've made a leap. Gin Malhi and Jim Lagopoulos, from the department of psychological medicine at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital, report detecting what...
...Abbasi writes that when they were together in Guantánamo's Camp X-Ray, Hicks told him he was praying to Satan for help. The appraisal finishes with a warning about Hicks: "Release him and see. If I know Golden Boy Hicks, I know that he has to have that last big adrenalin rush even if it takes him out." Abbasi also vents ill-feeling toward the Australian in his conclusion, where he suggests that Hicks is cooperating with the Americans. "As long as I do not dance to your tune like Golden Boy ? and tell you what...
...want her passing out in X-ray and she might have elevated ICP," I added, referring to high pressure from injury around the brain that can be worsened with narcotics. Vicki knew exactly what was going...