“Today, more than ever, medical devices are indispensable to save lives” Once confirming good quality, we should make every effort to ensure medical devices for COVID are: available, accessible, appropriate and affordable to those that need them the most, and to deliver training for safe use! ————————————————— Dear colleagues, as...

EDITORIAL Slavik Tabakov, Perry Sprawls and Geoffrey Ibbott HISTORY OF DENTAL RADIOGRAPHY: EVOLUTION OF 2D AND 3D IMAGING MODALITIES R. Pauwels THE HISTORY OF CONTRAST MEDIA DEVELOPMENT IN X-RAY DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY Adrian M K Thomas MEDICAL PHYSICS DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA – STATUS, EDUCATION, CHALLENGES, FUTURE T.A. Ige, F. Hasford, S....

WHO Medical Devices Newsletter Dear colleagues, we are all facing very difficult times in the world with the COVID pandemic. Some extracts from WHO media briefing:  Today’s  Friday 13, WHO news: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/13-03-2020-who-un-foundation-and-partners-launch-first-of-its-kind-covid-19-solidarity-response-fund  “Funds will go towards actions outlined in the COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan to enable all countries...

Patients in Focus: The IAEA’s First Training in Safety Culture in Medicine 25 participants discussed the future training material to be launched in May 2020 CT Protocols and Radiation Doses for Hematuria and Urinary Stones: Comparing Practices in 20 Countries A new article published in the European Journal of Radiology...

Registration and Abstract Submission for the 1st Regional Conference of the Federation of African Medical Physics Organizations (FAMPO-2020 Conference) is now OPEN. Kindly visit the conference website to submit your applications. https://conference.fampo-africa.org/ Deadline for submission of applications and abstracts: 08 July 2020. Secretary General (FAMPO)

Dear Friends and Colleagues,  We would like to invite you to participate in this questionnaire survey.  Objectives: 1. To determine the awareness of medical physicists regarding AI. 2. To determine the perceptions of medical physicists on the relevance and impact of AI in the practice of medical physics. Note:  No...

The Federation of African Medical Physics Organizations (FAMPO) will host its 1st Regional Conference on Medical Physics from 27 – 29 November 2020 in Marrakech, Morocco. Please click here to access the conference website. https://conference.fampo-africa.org/?

The March 2020 issue of the IUPAP newsletter is now online for your browsing.  You can view it via the link http://iupap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IUPAP_march2020_e.pdf or directly from the IUPAP website http://iupap.org/newsletter/