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...United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US VISIT) system, which Congress mandated following Sept. 11, requires most foreign visitors to be photographed and to undergo a biometric fingerprinting procedure as they enter the country. Security officials check the fingerprints against a database, allowing them to identify travellers with criminal histories who may have been overlooked during the visa-application process...
...results are replicated--and if Medicare and other insurers will cover the $400 to $2,000 cost of the screening test--it could dramatically change the way colon cancer is detected, encourage more screenings and probably save lives. Currently, only about half the folks who should be screened actually undergo any of the available tests for colon cancer...
...virtual procedure is not a walk in the park. You have to fast for a day and cleanse your bowel before any colonoscopy. And if the doctor finds a polyp that must be removed, you still have to undergo a conventional colonoscopy--right away, ideally, so you won't have to prep twice. That's why virtual colonoscopies probably work best for those at lowest risk of colon cancer--with no symptoms and no family history of the disease, says Dr. Perry Pickhardt, the radiologist who led the study while at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda...
...many of the abortion-rights advocates said they see their most important battle as being against the Bush administration, which passed legislation limiting the ability of women to undergo partial birth abortions...
...club members are guilty, they deserve the strongest allowable legal penalty,” Davis wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson. “In addition, they should be expelled from the University and forced to undergo psychological counseling—in prison...