Today, 1 October 2021, marks the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM), an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease […]
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Ten Years … and Counting
Ten years ago, on 15 August 2011, we posted a blog on our website entitled “To screen or not to screen? That […]
When Peer Review Gets Nasty
Today’s issue of Science highlights an astonishing story about a Dutch scientist – Elisabeth Bik (seen right, © AAAS) – who is […]
Communicating During Lockdown
It was 91 days ago, on 27 March 2020, that South Africa entered one of the world’s strictest lockdown periods. […]
A Virtual Conference
The provenance of the term “Aunt Minnie” can be traced back to a radiologist called Ben Felson who, in the 1940s, referred […]
Failure of the Next Big Thing
When we think of technology companies like Apple or Google that have emerged from Silicon Valley, we normally associate them […]
Why Mentorship Matters
I have just come across an Open Access article, published recently in Insights into Imaging and entitled “Mentorship in academic radiology: […]
Amazon: The Ultimate Disruptor
When Jeff Bezos (seen right, © Bloomberg) established an online bookstore 25 years ago, nobody could have imagined the way the company […]
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Dr Daniel Kopans, professor of radiology at Harvard, earlier this week started a new blog entitled Fiction and Facts about Breast Cancer […]
A Breakthrough from Cape Town
Earlier this week, a woman with severe aortic valve stenosis was operated on successfully at Groote Schuur Hospital by Jacques Scherman, […]