Four years ago Google bought a British artificial intelligence (AI) company called DeepMind for half a billion US dollars. The founders studied […]
Posts Tagged ‘Blood’
Predicting the Return of Breast Cancer
Clinicians do not currently have a reliable way to predict which patients treated for hormone receptor-positive (HR+) breast cancer run […]
Vitamin D Reduces Breast Cancer Risk
Technically speaking, vitamin D is not actually a vitamin – it is a steroidal hormone – that controls the levels of calcium […]
Seeing the Light
At a congress hosted last week by the Optical Society of America in Florida, researchers from the Politecnico of Milan in Italy presented a […]
An Old Drug Grabs New Attention
The drug thalidomide, given to pregnant women in the late 1950s, was responsible for serious birth defects that led to its […]
In Defence of Screening
As highlighted in these weekly blogs over the past six years, there have been well-publicised efforts to undermine the benefits […]
Courage and Innovation
The title for this week’s blog – courage and innovation – was the theme for a conference held at Groote Schuur Hospital […]
ACRIN is an Acronym to Remember
The American College of Radiology Imaging Network – or ACRIN – is a non-profit organisation that conducts research on adults […]
Approval of “Living Drug” to Treat Cancer
In 2012 six-year-old Emily Whitehead was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and, since she did not respond to standard treatment, was near […]
Blood vs Breath vs Tears
Over the past four years we have written about using blood samples for the early detection of breast cancer, including: studies […]