The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has its origins in a one-room laboratory in New York City in 1887 and […]
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Who Gets the Credit?
A patent provides protection to the inventor for 20 years, during which period the patent owner has an exclusive right […]
Has AI Been Overhyped?
Two weeks ago, The New York Times published an article entitled “Whatever happened to IBM’s Watson?” In 2011, the company’s supercomputer beat […]
Scientific Breakthroughs in 2020
It’s that time when the journal Science selects a major breakthrough from the past year, together with nine runners-up. Not […]
Professor and Entrepreneur
Twenty years ago, I published a commentary entitled “The professor as entrepreneur” in which I reflected on my decade as an academic […]
A Tutorial on Cancer
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), located just outside Washington, DC, in the leafy suburb of Bethesda, MD, is home to 27 […]
Does 3D Mammography Save More Lives?
A week ago, USA Today published an article written by Liz Szabo (seen right) with the provocative headline, “Massive marketing muscle pushes […]
A Question of Equipoise
Last week, Etta Pisano, who is chief research officer at the American College of Radiology, sat down for an interview with the […]
QT Ultrasound Launches Imaging Centres
Five years ago, Delphinus announced it had received 510(k) clearance from the FDA and was able to begin marketing its whole breast […]
A Celebration of Scholarship
Earlier today, during a graduation ceremony for the Faculty of Health Sciences, CapeRay’s co-founder and board member, Tania Douglas, was […]