Fifteen years ago, Nancy Cappello’s annual screening mammogram was found to be normal, just as had been reported for the […]
Archive for 2018
False Positives and False Negatives
There are two statistical measures to consider when the success of a screening programme is measured: sensitivity and specificity. In any […]
A Celebration of Scholarship
Earlier today, during a graduation ceremony for the Faculty of Health Sciences, CapeRay’s co-founder and board member, Tania Douglas, was […]
Optimising Workflow in Breast Screening
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota have just published a paper in the British Journal of Radiology entitled “Masses in […]
Don’t Lose the 3
Six years ago, the CEO of French manufacturer Poly Implant Prosthese, Jean-Claude Mas, was convicted and sent to jail for using non-medical […]
What a Tangled Web We Weave
The poem Marmion was written by Sir Walter Scott and published in 1808. It is a story of lust, forgery, treason and […]
Cape Health Business Week
Wesgro is the official agency that promotes tourism, trade and investment for Cape Town and the Western Cape. Among its strategic […]
A Day to Celebrate
Yesterday, 8 November 2018, marked the 123rd anniversary of the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. It has been […]
It’s All About Speed
One of the challenges when imaging the breast is to distinguish benign lesions from those that are malignant. With ultrasound, […]
We Learn From Our Mistakes
Eight years ago, two health journalists – Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus – wrote their first blog about the retraction of journal […]