The National Institutes of Health (NIH), located just outside Washington, DC, in the leafy suburb of Bethesda, MD, is home to 27 […]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
Failure of the Next Big Thing
When we think of technology companies like Apple or Google that have emerged from Silicon Valley, we normally associate them […]
Why Mentorship Matters
I have just come across an Open Access article, published recently in Insights into Imaging and entitled “Mentorship in academic radiology: […]
Coming Full Circle
On Friday 6 January 1956, Allan Cormack arrived for work at Groote Schuur Hospital, having been appointed as part-time nuclear physicist, spending […]
Amazon: The Ultimate Disruptor
When Jeff Bezos (seen right, © Bloomberg) established an online bookstore 25 years ago, nobody could have imagined the way the company […]
BRICS and Technology Transfer
BRICS is the acronym that draws together the national economies of five emerging countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. […]
Access to Health Care
In the United States, women diagnosed with breast cancer can select different types of surgery to remove the tumour. While […]
Cost of Breast Cancer
New research from the American Cancer Society, just published in JAMA Oncology, found that in 2015, 8.7 million years of life were […]
Irish Radiologists are Spooked
The Irish government runs two screening programmes – CervicalCheck and BreastCheck – designed to benefit the country’s women. In 2009, Ruth Morrissey had a […]
A Question of Equipoise
Last week, Etta Pisano, who is chief research officer at the American College of Radiology, sat down for an interview with the […]