In a long-anticipated move, this past Wednesday GE spun out its healthcare division with a listing on the NASDAQ stock exchange. After […]
Posts Tagged ‘Clinical Trial’
A Peek into the Future
Eleven years ago, we reviewed the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by oncologist Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee (© […]
Leap Forward with CRISPR
Two years ago, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for “the development of a method […]
Watching Breast Cancer Cells Form
Imagine if it was possible for a surgeon, when operating on a patient with breast cancer, to insert a microscope […]
Breast Cancer and Spinal Deformity
After the early detection of breast cancer, many women have benefited from extended survival following treatment. There is therefore a […]
ABUS Firm Raises Another $30 Million
Delphinus Medical Technologies has just announced the closing of a $30 million investment to fast-track commercialisation of its SoftVue automated breast ultrasound […]
World Dense Breast Day
On the eve of Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes the news that Katie Couric, the former CBS Evening News anchor, was diagnosed with […]
New Director for National Cancer Institute
Fifteen years ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were awarded a […]
Invention and Entrepreneurship
David Albert is the founder and chief medical officer of AliveCor, a ten-year-old company whose vision is “to be the 24/7 virtual […]
Covid, Ultrasound and AI
Eighteen months ago, when the Covid-19 vaccines were being rolled out in the USA and UK, we reviewed a paper that had […]