It was 91 days ago, on 27 March 2020, that South Africa entered one of the world’s strictest lockdown periods. […]
Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’
A Virtual Conference
The provenance of the term “Aunt Minnie” can be traced back to a radiologist called Ben Felson who, in the 1940s, referred […]
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: […]
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 […]
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Dr Daniel Kopans, professor of radiology at Harvard, earlier this week started a new blog entitled Fiction and Facts about Breast Cancer […]
A Breakthrough from Cape Town
Earlier this week, a woman with severe aortic valve stenosis was operated on successfully at Groote Schuur Hospital by Jacques Scherman, […]
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 […]