The poem Marmion was written by Sir Walter Scott and published in 1808. It is a story of lust, forgery, treason and […]
Posts Tagged ‘History’
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 […]
Releasing the Brakes on the Immune System
Last week the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to James […]
To Scatter or Not to Scatter?
When X-rays pass through tissue, such as a woman’s breast, the primary rays travel straight through, whereas some of the […]
Obesity and Breast Cancer Risk
Obesity – a condition in which a person has an unhealthy amount of body fat – is often measured using […]
Creating a Shared Future
The 48th World Economic Forum (WEF) kicked off in the Swiss village of Davos-Klosters earlier this week, bringing together world leaders […]
Dual-Modality Imaging Gathers Momentum
There is compelling evidence that mammography has been successful in early detection of breast cancer in healthy women. However, in premenopausal women […]
Courage and Innovation
The title for this week’s blog – courage and innovation – was the theme for a conference held at Groote Schuur Hospital […]
Of Testing and Cartoonists
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has published standard IEC 60601-1 for medical electrical equipment that mandates general requirements for basic safety and […]
Anatomy of a Biography
When Allan MacLeod Cormack, joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for “the development of computer assisted tomography” passed […]