New research from the American Cancer Society, just published in JAMA Oncology, found that in 2015, 8.7 million years of life were […]
Posts Tagged ‘Surgery’
New Guidelines Stir Up Controversy
A paper appeared earlier this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine entitled “Screening for breast cancer in average-risk women: a guidance […]
Thinking Outside of the Globe
Since 1980, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has been collaborating with its American counterpart NASA to develop and deploy sophisticated […]
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, […]
Don’t Lose the 3
Six years ago, the CEO of French manufacturer Poly Implant Prosthese, Jean-Claude Mas, was convicted and sent to jail for using non-medical […]
Cancer in the Crosshairs
Research Contracts & Innovation (RCI) is the department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that’s responsible for signing research […]
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 […]
Pioneers in Immunotherapy
The intramural research programme within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland lives by its byline: “Our research […]
A Computer Algorithm Failure
On Wednesday 2 May 2018 the Health Secretary for the UK government, Mr Jeremy Hunt (seen right, © The Independent), stood up […]
What a Great Idea!
Not too many people know that the world’s first digital laser was invented in South Africa, or that in the 1980s two […]