It’s hard to imagine, but a drug that has recently been described as “a breakthrough for breast cancer treatment” almost did not see the […]
Archive for August, 2014
Speech Recognition and Radiology
It’s hard to imagine but speech recognition algorithms to generate radiology reports have been around for almost thirty years. In August 1987 […]
Unlocking Medical Device Innovation
Earlier this week, Research Contracts and Intellectual Property Services at the University of Cape Town (UCT) hosted a workshop entitled “Unlocking medical device innovation […]
Mobile X-rays: 100 Years Ago
© Nobel Foundation This week marked the centenary of Britain’s involvement in World War I, with the BBC providing wrap-around coverage. It was the war […]
A Mastectomy – Just to be Safe?
In 1997, at age 35, Peggy Orenstein was diagnosed with breast cancer, a low-grade tumour that was excised. She went on with her life as […]