© Arie Van ‘t Riet Working alone in his laboratory in Würzburg, Germany in November 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered that invisible cathode rays, generated […]
Archive for 2014
Waiting for a Call from Stockholm
You’re kidding! I’ve won a Nobel Prize? It was Thursday morning 11 October 1979 in Winchester, Massachusetts, when Allan Cormack ignored his alarm […]
FDA Takes 3D Diagnosis Seriously
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just published a report entitled “3D techniques poised to change how doctors diagnose cancers.” The FDA’s […]
Combating the Ebola Epidemic
Ebola virus. © Cynthia Goldsmith, CDC Yesterday the President of the United States went on the offensive at a special high-level […]
First, Do No Harm
Susan Bewley There is currently a debate raging in the United Kingdom, highlighted in the correspondence section of this week’s British Medical […]
Ultrasound at Your Fingertips
Ronald Schutz is a cardiologist in Portland, Oregon who was inspired by the sensori-motor homunculus – the little man inside our brain with large gracile […]
The Firing Squad of Statistics
The Cancer Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town (UCT) co-hosted a seminar this week in which the author S. Lochlann […]
Breast Cancer Drug Shows Great Promise
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 […]
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 […]