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A Game-Changer for Breast-Cancer Diagnostics

Jane Nicholls
October 20, 2021
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The Breast Institute of New Zealand is the culmination of Dr. Monica Saini’s vision for a revolutionary private breast clinic. “I wanted to create a centre where we do the highest quality imaging, and can be an education and research platform,” says Dr. Saini, a breast radiologist who trained in her native United States. “We are a place for women to come and learn about themselves.”

Full circle: meet the MRI expert bringing world-class research back to her corner of New Zealand

Alma Dayawon
May 24, 2020
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Later this year GE’s most advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system will be installed at Mātai, the medical imaging research and innovation centre in Tairāwhiti Gisborne.  Leading the charge to use the technology to its fullest is New Zealander Dr Samantha Holdsworth, Mātai CEO, who knows how MR can produce astoundingly detailed images of the body—from brain to blood vessels and bones.

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Taking safe hold of a weighty problem

Alma Dayawon
December 09, 2019
CT scanners can produce incredible images that can help spot cancer, infections and other diseases inside the body in a matter of minutes.  The powerful technology is housed in a solid body with single parts that can weigh between 70 -120 kilograms (154-265 pounds) each. With lifting heavy items topping the leading cause of workplace injury, installing and maintaining the massive machines requires great care.
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A Quantum Leap: This Paralympic Athlete Is Harnessing The Power of Personalized Training Equipment, Built With The Latest 3D-Printing Technology

Scott Woolley
September 03, 2019

With surprising cheerfulness, Anna Grimaldi recounts the years of aggravation her weight-training sessions used to cause her. Born without a right hand, Grimaldi couldn’t securely grip a bar with a standard prosthetic, making it impossible to do the same kind of squats and other exercises that track athletes rely on to build leg strength. “It was quite frustrating on my end, because I knew what I needed but I had nowhere to go to get it,” the 22-year-old long jumper says.

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New Zealand’s GE Star

Jane Nicholls
August 08, 2018
A passing comment by her mum’s coworker turned out to be a boon for young Katrina Williamson, about to finish high school in New Zealand and hoping to study law at the country’s prestigious Victoria University in Wellington. Linda Williamson is a laboratory quality-control technician with GE Healthcare in Tauranga, and a colleague gave her the tip about the GE Star Awards. “After that, I kept an eye out for the emails about them,” says Linda, “but Katrina dealt with all of the application communication, which was quite a process!”
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An electrifying jumpstart for funding a great cause

Natalie Filatoff
May 25, 2018
When executives of two high-energy Kiwi businesses were nominated to jump off Auckland’s Sky Tower in the 2018 Drop Your Boss fundraiser for the Graeme Dingle Foundation, there was bound to be a little rivalry — and a lot of fellow feeling.
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Handheld ultrasound aids patient care, prehospital and in the air

Natalie Filatoff
May 24, 2018
Airborne within five minutes of receiving an emergency call, New Zealand’s Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter service is equipped with life rafts, stretchers, portable oxygen, medical packs, a humidicrib, a Breeze Eastern winch with 270kg (595 pounds)  lifting capacity, GPS, radio directional finders, Nitesun helicopter searchlights, night-vision goggles and its latest investment — a handheld, pocket-sized ultrasound from GE Healthcare called Vscan Extend.
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New Zealand’s innovation ecosystem

Jane Nicholls
The magical special effects that come out of Wellington’s Weta Digital are fire-breathing, big-screen evidence that New Zealand is a digital-innovation hothouse. And it goes way beyond the movies. Digital Planet 2017, a study by the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Massachusetts, measured the digital evolution of 60 countries, evaluating supply and demand conditions, institutional environment and innovation and change. It ranked New Zealand among the Stand Out nations, classed as having high levels of development and innovation.
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Innovation powering up New Zealand’s energy sector

Natalie Filatoff
October 29, 2017
“Energy today is more of a grudge purchase, people don’t enjoy paying for it and they don’t always understand the value it adds to their lives.
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Harnessing The Power Of Mother Nature – ASEAN’s Geothermal Energy Opportunity

August 21, 2017
Many people only get to see, and feel, the immense heat and energy produced beneath the earth’s surface at famous tourist attractions such as Iceland’s Golden Circle geothermal park, Hell’s Gate in New Zealand, or the “Old Faithful” geyser in Yellowstone Park.
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