Archive for January, 2016

Arab Health Week

Posted on: January 29th, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

In 1975 the first annual Arab Health meeting was held in the Middle East and this week the healthcare conference and trade […]

The Rise of Consumer Advertising

Posted on: January 22nd, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

New Zealand and the United States are the only two countries in the world that permit the advertising of prescription […]

Screening Comes Under Scrutiny

Posted on: January 15th, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

Two important articles on cancer screening have been published this week, one in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and another […]

The Forgotten Man of X-rays

Posted on: January 8th, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

Three Nobel Prizes have been awarded in medical imaging: for computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and X-rays. When […]

But is it Physics?

Posted on: January 1st, 2016 by admin 3 Comments

It is generally accepted that medical imaging was launched 120 years ago when the physicist Wilhelm Röntgen performed an experiment in which […]