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Sharp As A Tack: This Smart Needle Is Helping Doctors Make Better Diagnoses

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 12, 2016
Neonatal meningitis in one of the leading causes of infant mortality in the western world, but getting an early diagnosis isn’t easy. Doctors need to collect a sample of spinal fluid, a painful and onerous procedure for anyone. For the tiniest patients, there’s the added risk that the needle being used to draw the fluid will damage delicate tissues.
But at Tampere University Hospital in Finland, doctors were recently able to test a two-day-old, 6-pound baby for meningitis using a smart needle that removed much of the risk and made the process less painful.
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What’s Inside A Jet Engine? These Scientists Are On A Search-And-Don’t-Destroy Mission To Find Out

Todd Alhart
March 01, 2016
Dr. Waseem Faidi’s research playground looks an awful lot like a high-tech hospital room. There’s the large white doughnut of a computed tomography scanner and a medical bed surrounded by digital dials and other instruments seemingly ready to pronounce on biological data.
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These Machines Helped Unveil Secrets Of The Human Body

Tomas Kellner
January 26, 2016
Thomas Edison’s light bulb patent was 15 years old when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays and proved their power by imaging the bones inside his wife's hand. "I've seen my death," she reportedly said after seeing the picture. But GE co-founder Elihu Thomson had longevity in mind. A year after Roentgen's discovery, he modified Edison's light bulb to emit X-rays and used it to build the first X-ray machine.
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Beautiful on the Inside: These Machines Reveal the Secrets of the Body

October 05, 2015
If a good picture is worth a thousand words, then these images are visual equivalent of War and Peace. GE imaging technology - from MRI machines to high-resolution microscopes - offers incredibly detailed snapshots of the body all the way down to the cellular level.
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Catching Cancer with Low Dose CT Helps Drop Lung Cancer Deaths by 20 Percent in High Risk Individuals

September 14, 2015
Dr. Ella Kazerooni knows a thing or two about looking for lung cancer. As the chair of the American College of Radiology’s committee on lung cancer screening, she has been at the forefront of giving doctors the tools they need to diagnose high-risk patients early.
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New CT Scan Can See Bones and Organs in Stunning Detail

January 08, 2015
The new Revolution CT Scanner from GE recently completed a six-month clinical trial at West Kendall Baptist Hospital in Florida. There, doctors said they were able to diagnose even the most challenging cardiac patients with erratic or high heartbeats and reduce the radiation dose for pediatric patients.
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A Journey No Child Should Take

December 17, 2014

Mark Frontera’s cellphone wouldn’t stop ringing. It was Thursday afternoon, Oct. 11, 2012, and the engineer was in a meeting with a manager. Whoever it was on the other end could wait, so he sent the caller to voicemail.

A moment passed, and again it rang. He looked at the caller ID. It was Tara, his wife. He excused himself and answered. He could hear the panic as her voice trembled in hysterics.

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The Discreet Charm of the Cauliflower and Other Radiology Gems

November 06, 2014
Of the many Eureka! moments experienced by scientists since Archimedes, Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895 was among the least auspicious.  When he trained his cathode ray apparatus on his wife’s hand and imaged the bones of her fingers, she recoiled and exclaimed: “I have seen my death!”
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Fighting Cancer in Ethiopia

August 16, 2014

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You Won’t Believe What This Machine Can See

April 20, 2014
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