Archive for January, 2015

Density on the Agenda Again

Posted on: January 30th, 2015 by admin 1 Comment

The February edition of the American Journal of Roentgenology was published earlier this week and there was a special focus on women’s imaging, in […]

Jury Still Out on E-Cigarettes

Posted on: January 23rd, 2015 by admin

Active smoking increases the risk of breast cancer and when women stop smoking, the risk disappears. Among the most widely used strategies to assist […]

Tomosynthesis Can Save Lives – And Money

Posted on: January 16th, 2015 by admin 1 Comment

At the end of last year the magazine Time published a list of eleven remarkable health advances, suggesting these were bound to play […]

Wearables Come of Age

Posted on: January 9th, 2015 by admin

It’s the first full week of the New Year, which means 150,000 delagates have converged on Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics […]

Biological Bad Luck

Posted on: January 2nd, 2015 by admin 2 Comments

Two scientists at Johns Hopkins University – applied mathematician Cristian Tomasetti and cancer biologist Bert Vogelstein – were having a brainstorming session […]