On the eve of Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes the news that Katie Couric, the former CBS Evening News anchor, was diagnosed with […]
Posts Tagged ‘Journal Article’
Matthew Effect Confirmed
In 1968, Robert Merton, professor of sociology at Columbia University, contributed an article to Science entitled “The Matthew Effect in Science.” His […]
Articles Retracted by Nobel Laureate
On 7 October 2019, Dr Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University received a life-changing call from Sweden to say he’d been awarded […]
Free Access to Research Articles
Fifteen years ago, the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town hosted Dr Harold Varmus, then the CEO […]
China Moving into First Place
It was over six decades ago, in 1955, that Eugene Garfield, while working on his PhD in structural linguistics at the […]
Wearable Ultrasound
Imagine an adhesive patch, the size of a postage stamp, that could be stuck onto your skin in close proximity […]
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 […]
Nobel Prize Controversies
Over the years, there have been three medical imaging technologies whose developers have been awarded a Nobel Prize: X-rays (1901); […]
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 […]
Reducing Breast Cancer Deaths in Low-Income Countries
Each year, 2.3 million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer, while there are 685,000 deaths. Two-thirds of these deaths occur in middle- and […]