Earlier this week, a woman with severe aortic valve stenosis was operated on successfully at Groote Schuur Hospital by Jacques Scherman, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’
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), […]
What a Tangled Web We Weave
The poem Marmion was written by Sir Walter Scott and published in 1808. It is a story of lust, forgery, treason and […]
Pseudoscience and Debunking Myths
David Gorski is a surgical oncologist at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and Professor of Surgery at Wayne State University in Detroit. He specializes in […]
End the Confusion
There is no doubting the power of social media to influence the way people think about a particular topic. And, […]
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 […]
Implementing Our Marketing Plan
In an earlier blog we described how to create a marketing plan based on a 15-point template published by Forbes. Well, in the past […]
Not Just Moonshots
The term “moonshot” was coined by Google X, the secret research division at Alphabet, to describe a technology with three attributes: groundbreaking; […]
Does Old Data Undermine Screening?
Twitter is now a ubiquitous part of our lives, enabling individuals to make their personal thoughts known to all and […]
Authenticity in a Post-Truth World
After much discussion and debate, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2016 was post-truth, an adjective defined as “relating to […]