It was almost a decade ago that a group of clinicians from Boston published a paper in Academic Radiology entitled “Retail venue-based […]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
Me and You
Earlier this week, on 4 February, it was World Cancer Day and Sky News in the UK interviewed 15-year-old Jack Browett. He described an […]
A Tutorial on Cancer
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), located just outside Washington, DC, in the leafy suburb of Bethesda, MD, is home to 27 […]
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 […]