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The Daily Mail
National Newspaper

As shown by Dr Chris on the ITV1 "This Morning Show."

Relevance: Breast Checker
Date: 15th March 2005
Headline: The DIY breast checker

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A do-it-yourself scanner that can detect signs of a tumour could help women check themselves regularly for breast cancer.The British invention shines a powerful light through the breast tissue and picks up dark spots that might indicate a potentially cancerous lump. "

These spots are created by the growth of new blood vessels that spring up to feed the tumour and provide it with all the nutrients it needs to keep expanding...."

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Inverness Courier
Local broadsheet
Inverness, Scotland
Relevance: The UltraStethoscope electronic auscultation device
Date: 5 December 2000
Headline: Accolade for Inventors

"Two Inverness inventors have been commended for their creation at a prestigious award ceremony in Glasgow.

"David Watmough and Ronald Moffat, from the Highland Innovation Centre in Inverness, received the commendation at the final of the Scottish Innovation Awards in the academic and medical category for their ultra-stethoscope and bio-acoustic sensors."


Press & Journal
Regional broadsheet
Inverness, Scotland
Relevance: The AngioTracker "anti-cancer" drug evaluation instrument
Date: 19 January 2000
Headline: Why an angel would be the answer to David's prayers

"An award-winning Highland scientist is looking for a business angel to help him carry his medical dreams into commercial reality...

"Medical physicist and former professor David Watmough has been using his Inverness-based Highland Innovation Centre as an ideas powerhouse since 1998.

"In that short time, he has won a Scottish Innovation John Logie Baird Award and Smart Scotland Award, which netted him £45,000...

"...The awards were won by Dr Watmough's AngioTracker, a device which monitors angiogenesis around breast cancer."