A decade ago, Siddhartha Mukherjee published his prize-winning book entitled The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. He quoted from […]
Posts Tagged ‘Regulatory Affairs’
Turning Cancer on Itself
Fifteen years ago, Samuel Mazin was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, studying the inverse geometry of computer tomographic (CT) systems. He […]
Cape Town Company Develops Covid-19 Test Kit
Five years ago, CapeRay joined a consortium of local manufacturers to establish a not-for-profit company called the Western Cape Medical Devices […]
Banking on Stock Exchanges
One of the first stock exchanges was established in Amsterdam in the early 1600s, with the first shares offered for the Dutch […]
Hoofbeats of Zebras
There is an aphorism in clinical medicine – “When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras” – which means young doctors […]
The DBT Pioneers
Digital breast tomosynthesis – DBT – has its origins in Holland in the 1930s when the neuroradiologist and electrical engineer George Ziedses […]
Breast Ultrasound and Catastrophic Forgetting
April 2021 saw the publication of journal articles that explored the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to breast ultrasound images. […]
Breast Imaging Embraces AI
Earlier this week in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published an action plan for the use of artificial […]
Vaccines for Breast Cancer
For the past few weeks, there has been understandable excitement that vaccines to inoculate people against the Covid-19 virus have […]
And the Winner is …
James Dyson is the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner and other consumer products, including the Airblade hand dryer, an ultrasonic humidifier […]