Alice, or ‘Gyp’ to her friends, got up in the middle of the night and made her way to the bathroom. She […]
Archive for January, 2012
Breast Ultrasound Versus Mammography?
Screening for breast cancer, using various imaging modalities, aims to achieve 100% sensitivity (percentage of true positives) while simultaneously yielding 100% specificity […]
Ethics and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
Fifteen years ago the National Institutes of Health in the USA convened a panel to reach consensus on whether regular mammograms should […]
In Pursuit of the Perfect Design
In March 2009 Steve Jobs lay in a hospital bed in Memphis, Tennessee, recovering from a liver transplant. As he floated […]