Word: monitoring
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...disappeared. At the start of the study, 123 women had fibrous ridges growing around their cervical walls; this "hood" later receded in 52% and vanished in 28%. But the good news has a bad side. If DES daughters lose their abnormal cervical "markers" and neglect checkups, doctors may not monitor them for another problem linked to the hormone: a high risk of pregnancies ending in premature birth...
...discreetly as they can, the other lifters, coaches and officials scurry to the corner of the warm-up room, where a television set will show them the action out front. The silence is relieved only by the rasping puffs of lifters catching their breaths as they watch the TV monitor. Suddenly, something in the room drops with an ear-shattering crash. Heads jerk around. Rakhmanov alone is still warming up, oblivious to the fate of his teammate...
Kaplan acknowledges that this antibody "is of no earthly good to anybody," but the technique employed to create it may open many important avenues of research. Use of monoclonal antibodies could, for instance, help doctors monitor elusive changes on the surfaces of cells and help explain the development of such suspected immunity-related diseases as arthritis, juvenile diabetes, multiple sclerosis and cancer. Finally, if specific surface characteristics of cells are found to be associated with only certain types of cancer, radioactively tagged antibodies could be sent to find the cells in any part of the body. It might even...
...puts the agency at less than arm's length from the companies it is overseeing, and it recommends continued use of DERs. But it also says that the system breeds "only a cursory review" of the DERs' work and urges that a better way be found to monitor what they approve...
Backing up the stukachi network is a gigantic mail and telephone surveillance operation. A Soviet dissident now in exile once ran a test of the KGB's postal monitoring system by sending 100 letters to a West European town from various mailboxes in the U.S.S.R. Only six got through. Selective surveillance of mail and telephone calls has been made much easier in recent years by computers that enable the KGB to monitor specific targets...