Posts Tagged ‘Award’

Neural Networks and Tumours

Posted on: July 28th, 2023 by admin

Each year the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) invites applications from young scientists for the Wachtel Cancer Research […]

A Cureus Impact Factor?

Posted on: July 7th, 2023 by admin

In case you may be wondering, the second word in today’s title should not be “Curious”! In fact, Cureus is the name […]

An Extraordinary Biographer

Posted on: December 30th, 2022 by admin

Eleven years ago, I wrote a blog, “In pursuit of the perfect design,” which was in fact a book review. The […]

Articles Retracted by Nobel Laureate

Posted on: September 9th, 2022 by admin

On 7 October 2019, Dr Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University received a life-changing call from Sweden to say he’d been awarded […]

Nobel Prize Controversies

Posted on: July 22nd, 2022 by admin

Over the years, there have been three medical imaging technologies whose developers have been awarded a Nobel Prize: X-rays (1901); […]

An Icon Bids Adieu

Posted on: April 15th, 2022 by admin 2 Comments

In 1985, Dr Jay Stein and his good friend David Ellenbogen teamed up to co-found Hologic with 12 employees and the intention […]

X-Rays as Art

Posted on: March 25th, 2022 by admin

If we cast our minds back to November 1895, to Würzburg in Germany, we can see the physicist Wilhelm Röntgen […]

53 Fridays in 2021

Posted on: December 31st, 2021 by admin 4 Comments

We know there are 52 weeks in a year, so how is it possible that today, 31 December 2021, is […]

Another Breakthrough from SA

Posted on: October 15th, 2021 by admin

Last Friday, we highlighted the contribution of two South Africans – Jamie Ambrose and Allan Cormack – to the development of computer […]

CT Turns 50

Posted on: October 8th, 2021 by admin 2 Comments

Fifty years ago on 1 October 1971, “Jamie Ambrose, a consultant radiologist at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital in Wimbledon, south London, made […]