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GE Healthcare Announces FDA Approval to Supply Technetium 99m Generators

May 30, 2014

Princeton, NJ -- May 30, 2014 -- Effective from June 1st 2014 and following approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), GE Healthcare today announced the intent to supply generators for the production of sodium pertechnetate; technetium (Tc99m) injection to its radiopharmacies in the US.

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Spending Money, Saving Lives

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Spending Money, Saving Lives

Recent figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) are a stark reminder of the many challenges we face in global healthcare today: Over 6 million children under the age of 5 die each year; over 1,000 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth; and over 36 million of the 57 million deaths every year are from non-communicable diseases, representing

Global Innovation Fuels Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration

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Global Innovation Fuels Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration

Oil and gas exploration is pushing out into deeper waters further offshore -- up to 3000m deep and over 100km away from the coast. In these cases, operations are challenging and building a floating oil platform is a very expensive undertaking. That is why, for over a decade, GE's researchers have been looking at developing technologies that could revolutionize offshore oil and gas production, by creating a seafloor unit that processes wellstream fluid right on the seabed.

Catalytic Coating Makes Pollution-Eating Billboards

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Catalytic Coating Makes Pollution-Eating Billboards

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by Michael Keller

I write in praise of air.  I was six or five
when a conjurer opened my knotted fist
and I held in my palm the whole of the sky.
I've carried it with me ever since.

That is the opening stanza from "In Praise of Air" by British poet, playwright and novelist Simon Armitage.

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GE Lighting and ByteLight Enable Retailers to Engage In-Store Connected Shoppers with Location-Based Services using Next-Gen LED Fixtures

May 29, 2014

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Methanephysics: From Boom to Boon

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Methanephysics: From Boom to Boon

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On November 4, 1776, the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta took a boat ride on the pristine Lake Maggiore straddling the border between northern Italy and Switzerland. Ever the scientist - he invented the first battery and the unit of electrical potential, the volt, is named after him -- Volta ignored the distant alpine vistas and poked a stick in a marsh near the shore.

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Grocer Finds GE's New LED Fixture IS the Answer for Lighting That Lasts

May 29, 2014

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (May 29, 2014)---Staying on the cutting edge of technology is one way Heinen's Grocery Store creates an experience that keeps shoppers coming back, and lighting is essential to this equation---minus the time and cost of replacing lamps. When the Northeast Ohio grocer went looking for lighting that could last, it found an ally in GE---and an answer in LED---that together keep the ladders and lifts tucked away.

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Economic Model Compares Iso-osmolar and Low-Osmolar Contrast Agents in Regard to Cost Associated With Contrast -Induced Acute Kidney Injury

May 29, 2014

Iso-Osmolar Contrast was More Cost-Effective than Low-Osmolar Contrast

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