LOUISVILLE, Ky. --- Dec. 13, 2013 --- (NYSE:GE) --- GE engineers, in partnership with Louisville's WaterStep organization, are providing 60 inventive portable water purification devices to thousands in the typhoon-stricken Philippines. The need for emergency drinking water supplies in the country is immense due to the disaster that hit the country's most impoverished areas on Nov. 8.
Inside Knowledge: Fast CT Scanner Does Not Skip a Heartbeat
Inside Knowledge: Fast CT Scanner Does Not Skip a Heartbeat
Doctors have been been looking at the brain, the heart, and other internal organs with computed tomography machines, or CT, for more than four decades.
The technology uses X-rays to peer inside the body and requires patients to be calm. But that's not always possible. According to a study from the British Journal of Radiology, almost two-thirds of patients referred to cardiac CT had high heart rates, and some were turned away from being scanned.