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Every time Risa Stack has her routine blood work done, she brings a book to keep her mind occupied and a candy bar to boost her blood sugar. She also alerts the nurse that she might faint. “It’s a…
For a patient with an acute illness, there’s no graver enemy than time. A diagnosis a week too late, surgery that runs too long — these can be the dividing lines that separate life and death. But at…
When Dr. Lawrence Platt started his career as an obstetrician and gynecologist 40 years ago, he was fascinated by ultrasound technology. Each time he scanned a patient, he created a grainy black-and-…
Hospitals can feel pain, too, and computer scientist Karley Yoder is using artificial intelligence to treat it. Yoder and her colleagues at GE Healthcare are working on apps that enable healthcare…
It takes more than an Allen key and a caffeine drip to open 50 shipping containers of some 3,000 flatpacked parts and assemble them into a 350-tonne lung that filters air for Australia. At one of the…
As 2017 Breast Cancer Awareness month draws to a close, Sunshine Coast radiologist, Dr Sean O’Connor has one message for women: “Let us find breast cancer before you do — when it’s small and…
On remote Aniolam Island in the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea, about 900 kilometres or two hours flight from Port Moresby, Newcrest Mining Limited extracts gold from one of the world’s…
In the spring of 2016, 32-year-old Nicole Gularte grew weak and lost her ability to see colors from her left eye. She knew that her leukemia had returned. Gularte’s form of the disease was called…
Karen Edelmann’s Doberman, Apollo, developed an odd habit several months ago. He started nudging Edelmann beneath her left breast. Never her right breast, always her left and in the same spot each…
Few people have done more to bring humans and robots together than Rodney Brooks. Two decades ago, the Australian inventor, mathematician and former MIT professor founded iRobot, the company that…