Sydney, Australia // 15 June 2018 - GE this week announced more than one hundred Australian schools have been selected for its 2018 GE Additive Education Program, the largest rollout of its kind in Australia. The primary and secondary schools from across the country will receive a polymer 3D printer, supporting software and an education curriculum to give students hands-on additive manufacturing experience.
Helping hearts: A trek across Australia to stop rheumatic heart disease in indigenous communities
Between three to five percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living in remote and regional areas suffer from rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Poverty and lack of primary healthcare is behind the persistence of a deadly disease that has been virtually absent in the rest of Australia for more than 50 years.
A Cold Dip to Keep Premmies Warm
A strange thing occurred while Quinn Darragh was swimming from England to France in September 2020. He could swear his wife Sheree was swimming below him in the icy black water as he slowly crawled his way from Dover to a spot near Calais. Except his wife was a mermaid.
“Weird things happen” when you’re as tired and cold as he was, Darragh says. “You hallucinate at certain points.”
A Game-Changer for Breast-Cancer Diagnostics
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.”
When Leena Kaleliya, a GE Healthcare customer sales representative in Sydney, found a lump in her breast in September 2018, even her doctor figured there wasn’t anything to worry about. She was only 39 years old, in good health and no family history of breast cancer. However, an initial ultrasound led to a mammogram and biopsy in quick succession, resulting in a breast cancer diagnosis.
After Devastating Fires, Portable Ultrasound Helps Veterinarians Care for Injured Australian Wildlife
Donnie the koala needed help. Orphaned after another animal killed his mother, he was lethargic and obviously sick when a rescuer brought him to Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital in southeast Australia. The hospital’s veterinarian, Dr. Bree Talbot, could tell that Donnie had a bloated abdomen that was making him uncomfortable. She also learned that he didn’t have enough red blood cells or sufficient protein in his blood. But she needed more information to determine how to best treat him.
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Hocus Pocus: Revealing the Magic of Ultrasound
In honor of International Women’s Day, we celebrate amazing women who are forging innovation through technology.
Emergency physician Dr Kylie Baker is shaping the future of healthcare through point-of-care ultrasound. Her interest in point-of-care ultrasound—referred to as POCUS—extends nearly two decades, realizing back then the potential for the technology.
Imagining the future of medical imaging
Medical imaging is an essential part of modern healthcare. Services from CT scans to X-rays help diagnose, treat and monitor illnesses and conditions faster and more accurately than ever before. In Australia alone, more than 25 million diagnostic imaging examinations are performed each year.
A new 5-episode podcast series from GE Healthcare Australia & New Zealand examines how medical diagnostic imaging is shaping the future of patient care through partnerships and the introduction of transformational technologies.
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA // February 7, 2018 - GE (NYSE:GE) today celebrated the commencement of construction of the Coopers Gap Wind Farm with a sod turning ceremony attended by Hon Dr Anthony Lynham, MP, Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy.
Australia’s largest wind farm, the Powering Australian Renewables Fund’s (PARF) development will include 123 GE wind turbines.
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Sydney, Australia, 14 December 2017 - GE Aviation has today announced the appointment of Keren Rambow as Regional General Manager, South Asia Pacific.
Based in North Sydney and effective immediately, Keren will be responsible for leading sales and operations in Australia and New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the South Asia Pacific Islands. Keren will take over responsibility from Max York, who was recently appointed to CEO of GE Australia.