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Until recently, treatment has generally been limited to prescribing supplemental estrogen, to slow the resorption rate, and calcium, to facilitate the formation of new bone.* Using a computerized axial tomography scanner, doctors at the University of California in San Francisco are able to take three-dimensional X rays of the bones, measure the loss of minerals and devise an estrogen dosage sufficient to maintain the resorption balance. Says Kaiser-Permanente Endocrinologist Dr. Bruce Ettinger, who does research at U.C.S.F.: "We've been trying to find the smallest dose of estrogen that will prevent osteoporosis. I think we have...
...black box manufactured by National Semiconductor Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif. The device electronically simulates a woman's voice calling out the price of each item, the total bill and the amount of change owed shoppers. The machine, dubbed POSitalker, is usually connected to a so-called laser scanner, which is a computerized checkout machine that can automatically add up a shopper's selections simply by reading a computer code printed on the packages...
...Since scanners do their work with lightning speed, and in silence, more than a few shoppers naturally wonder whether everything is being totted up accurately. POSitalker was designed to give them reassurance that the laser scanner is doing its work properly, and most people seem pleased enough. Says Peter Scialabba, 37: "More stores should have them. Lots of times you wonder if you are getting the right change, but this eliminates the wonder." One dissenting voice belongs to Linda Swope, an Albertson's customer who complains about one part of the supermarket experience that no machine can make pleasant...
...scanner, a cousin of the CAT, unlocks metabolic secrets
...latest pictures of the human brain come in electric blues and glowing yellows. They are produced by the PET scanner, one of a series of machines that are helping make diagnosis less of an art and more of a science. The PET scanner looks rather like a sophisticated airplane engine, with a hollow core. It is a cousin of the CAT scanner that nearly a decade ago wedded the technique of X rays with computer technology to give cross-sectional views of internal body structures, not just bones but soft tissues as well. But scanning by CAT (for computerized axial...