Two women whose breast cancer was missed during routine annual mammograms combined forces four years ago to launch the educational […]
Posts Tagged ‘Legislation’
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 […]
Language of Breast Density
Over the years, we have written multiple articles about breast density, including its reduction, legislation, diagnostic challenges and workflow optimization. One may reasonably ask: Why this […]
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), […]
Cape Health Business Week
Wesgro is the official agency that promotes tourism, trade and investment for Cape Town and the Western Cape. Among its strategic […]
The End of Paywalled Journals?
Science Europe is an association of European Research Funding Organisations based in Brussels, and earlier this week it published a controversial initiative called […]
Politics Trumps Common Sense
On 3 April 2018 the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published a list of 1,300 products imported from China that would be […]
The Benefits of Obamacare
In mid-January, a week before Donald Trump was sworn in as President, we asked what might happen to the Affordable Care Act […]
I’ll See You in Court!
We recently reviewed the false-negative conundrum and the devastating consequences for a woman if a malignant breast tumour is missed at screening. […]
A Crisis in Research Funding
A decade ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were successful in […]