9th February 2017
Shakardokht Jafari knew her father had leukemia. The young Afghan woman had flouted tradition by earning a radiology degree, and she recognized the symptoms. Afghanistan had no cancer treatment, though, and the closest help was in Pakistan. Traveling over mountains ...
26th January 2017
These days, there’s cutting edge technology for pretty much every aspect of baby planning, making and care. From wellness apps for expectant moms, to mini-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines that can scan babies’ brains, to new in vitro fertilisation (...
19th January 2017
3D imaging will change how we diagnose disease, train doctors and build spare body parts – and may even allow us to see our unborn babies in the round long before they are born Fans of Grey’s Anatomy (the hit ...
6th December 2016
At barely 18, Jerdain had such intense back pain that he couldn’t even touch his toes. Jerdain is one of the estimated 90,000 people – most of them children and teenagers – who have scoliosis in Jamaica. Scoliosis is a condition that creates ...
11th February 2016
Photographs and films have seen a rapid transformation from black and white to color over the last century. Our x-rays, however, have always remained in black and white. X-rays have been used to look inside the human body since 1895, when ...
5th November 2014
An insatiable curiosity for what goes on inside the human body has driven innovations in medicine and medical imaging for centuries. In 1895, a German by the name of Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered that X-ray waves could pass through flesh, ...