Posts Tagged ‘Cost’

Focus on Breast Screening in Europe

Posted on: June 16th, 2023 by admin

Two weeks ago, the European Society of Radiology hosted an online webinar entitled “Breast cancer screening: the updated EU Council recommendations and […]

The Not-So-Holy Grail

Posted on: June 9th, 2023 by admin 1 Comment

It was exactly ten years ago that we published a blog entitled “Blood tests to detect breast cancer early,” suggesting that if […]

When the Editors Walked Out

Posted on: May 19th, 2023 by admin

It was 20 years ago when the Public Library of Science (PLOS) – motivated by Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus – launched its […]

POCUS Joins Forces with AI

Posted on: May 5th, 2023 by admin

A recent breakthrough development in medical imaging has been the emergence of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) devices, especially those systems that […]

What Happened in AI this Week?

Posted on: March 31st, 2023 by admin

This past week has been particularly busy for the field of artificial intelligence (AI). An open letter from Future of Life Institute […]

Is DBT There Yet?

Posted on: March 17th, 2023 by admin 1 Comment

Twelve years ago, the FDA approved Hologic’s digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) system – sometimes incorrectly referred to as 3D mammography – as […]

MRI for the Little Guy

Posted on: February 24th, 2023 by admin

One of the major breakthroughs in medical science during the last two decades of the 20th century was the introduction of […]

Leap Forward with CRISPR

Posted on: November 18th, 2022 by admin

Two years ago, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for “the development of a method […]

Turning Cancer on Itself

Posted on: May 6th, 2022 by admin

Fifteen years ago, Samuel Mazin was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, studying the inverse geometry of computer tomographic (CT) systems. He […]

Another US Patent for CapeRay

Posted on: April 22nd, 2022 by admin 3 Comments

Five years ago, we reported that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had awarded CapeRay a key patent to protect our novel dual-modality […]