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...Slippery statistics like this are everywhere. Take survival rates - which seem so clear but can be anything but. A 2006 study of CT scan screening for lung cancer seemed to produce results that were flat-out dazzling: Of the 174,000 people who are given a lung cancer diagnosis each year, only 5% are still alive 10 years later. But when CT scans were used to detect tumors early, the survival rate leaped to a stunning...
...before the 10-year threshold is reached. Now imagine a new technology that spots early signs of the disease at age 57. If everyone gets the test, the 10-year survival rate soars to 100%, but no one in fact lives a single day longer. As with Zocor, early CT scans and early detection may in fact make a difference in how long someone lives, but in order to determine how big that difference is, you need to peel back the numbers and look more closely at individual cases...
Prescription pads, clipboards and patient charts are so 20th century. In the era of CT scans, gene-splicing and stem-cell breakthroughs, handwritten record-keeping feels about as outmoded as the fluoroscope. It's more than just strangely retro; it's fantastically expensive...
...foot boat to see the New England's largest winter population of bald Eagles. Warm up upon your return with afternoon tea, and get a $25 gift certificate to the nearby Audubon shop. Rates start at $315, available through March 7. 949 Boston Post Rd, Madison, CT...
...1500s it was all the rage in Japan to have tea masters prepare powdered tea in elaborately choreographed ceremonies. About 100 objects, including kettles, bamboo tea scoops and ceramic tea bowls are on display through April 26. 1111 Chapel Street, at York Street, New Haven, CT...