Automated breast ultrasound or ABUS – where the ultrasound transducer is moved across the breast under automated control rather than […]

Imagine you are a creative person and you invent something with significant commercial potential. Should you fulfil the legal obligation […]

One impact of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past three months is that women have delayed or even skipped their […]

Radiologists have traditionally been considered specialists in diagnosis because they examine medical images, but there is a small subset that […]

The provenance of the term “Aunt Minnie” can be traced back to a radiologist called Ben Felson who, in the 1940s, referred […]

The gold standard for diagnosing COVID-19 is reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), a technique for which its inventor, Kary […]

In 1839, Gustav Rose discovered a novel mineral in the Ural Mountains of Russia which he named “perovskite” in honour of the […]

Twenty years ago, when the AIDS pandemic was ravaging South Africa, the country’s president, Thabo Mbeki, criticised the scientific consensus that the […]

Seven years ago, we reviewed the progress in developing a blood test for the early detection of breast cancer. Thought to be […]

The Battle of Dunkirk, fought between 26 May and 4 June 1940, marked a turning point in World War Two. During […]