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...HEALTH: Virtual colonoscopy offers a new screening tool...
...ever had a colonoscopy--that much dreaded procedure in which a physician inserts a lighted tube into your rectum and snakes it up your large intestine, looking for abnormal growths that could lead to colon cancer--it's easy to see the appeal of the so-called virtual colonoscopy. The procedure is far less invasive: a small device blows air into the rectum to inflate the bowel while a C.T. scanner takes X rays. Unfortunately, the results from early virtual colonoscopies did not measure up. In some studies, they missed half the polyps that needed to be caught...
...there was a great deal of interest last week in a New England Journal of Medicine report suggesting that a new, 3D virtual colonoscopy (aided by a special staining potion that patients drink in advance) may be as good as or better than a traditional colonoscopy. If these 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...
...stunt, designed to publicize the opening of a new film about the violent 1996-97 anti-Milosevic riots. As for Milosevic and Seselj, Hague officials late last week banned both men from "using communication facilities provided by the Detention Unit" to spread their message home. No more virtual campaigning? Things ain't what they used...
Attempts at creative writing involve many time-honored traditions: staring at blank sheets of paper (blank virtual sheets of paper, these days); typing out a few tentative words, only to cringe and toss them away; getting angry at people who read the final draft and don’t sense all the brilliant, subtly wrought miracles of language. Ever since that conversation with my blockmate, though, I’ve begun to notice another quality of the writing process that I hadn’t really considered: unabashed navel-gazing...