This past Monday, 4 February 2019, was the 20th occasion to mark World Cancer Day. Emanating from the Charter of Paris, the […]
A Breakthrough from Cape Town
Earlier this week, a woman with severe aortic valve stenosis was operated on successfully at Groote Schuur Hospital by Jacques Scherman, […]
Globalization 4.0
It’s that time of year when the world’s leaders gather in the Swiss alpine village of Davos to discuss cooperation […]
QT Ultrasound Launches Imaging Centres
Five years ago, Delphinus announced it had received 510(k) clearance from the FDA and was able to begin marketing its whole breast […]
Tomosynthesis vs Ultrasound in Dense Breasts
A research group based at the University of Genoa in Italy is known by its acronym ASTOUND, which stands for Adjunct […]
FDA Hit by Government Shutdown
Just north of downtown Washington, DC, in suburban Maryland, lies the sprawling campus of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), […]
Looking for a Polar Bear in a Snowstorm
Fifteen years ago, Nancy Cappello’s annual screening mammogram was found to be normal, just as had been reported for the […]
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 […]