As I write this blog in my study at home, located on the slopes of Table Mountain near the botanical gardens […]
Archive for November, 2013
The Power of Celebrity
Betty Ford in the White House, 1974. For many Americans, their abiding memory of Richard Nixon is of him waving goodbye, […]
3D Printing of Medical Devices
Additive manufacturing — also known as 3D printing — is a technology that enables engineers to fabricate three-dimensional solid objects of virtually any shape […]
Lighting Up the Breast
Copyright Annals of Surgery, 1931. In the early 20th century, transillumination — shining a light through the tissue of interest — was employed […]
A Biological Clock and Breast Cancer
Copyright Steve Horvath, UCLA A new internal body clock based on DNA that measures the biological age of our tissues and […]