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Brain Trust: GE, NFL and Under Armour Challenge Innovators to Improve Concussion Prevention and Treatment

September 04, 2013

Concussions are a major concern in sports, but they can happen anywhere. At least 1.7 million traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) occur in the United States annually. These head traumas contribute to a third of all injury-related deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Popular Science: GE Girls Stokes Student Interest in STEM

July 25, 2013

Waukesha seventh-grader Laurel Chen says that when she grows up, she wants to be a biomedical engineer. “I like to build things, learn about math and science, and draw,” she said. “As long as it lets my creativity spark, I’ll do it.”

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Slime Science: The “OMG Microscope” Helps Scientists See How Bacteria Creep

July 16, 2013
Australian scientists have used a powerful GE microscope to study the spread of slimy, drug-resistant bacterial colonies called biofilms. They have been able to determine how the microbes stick together and move in intricate, self-organized patterns. The research could help doctors fight aggressive infections caused by biofilms colonizing catheters and other medical devices. “Biofilms are notoriously difficult to clear,” says team leader Cynthia Whitchurch, senior research fellow at University of Technology Sydney.
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It’s Not Brain Surgery: These Earbuds Can Measure Brain Pressure, NoDrills Required

July 08, 2013
In 1953, Russian archaeologist A. D. Stolyar excavated a group of 14 skeletons from a Mesolithic cemetery near Kiev, Ukraine. One of the skulls found at the 7,000 year-old site showed signs of trepanning, the surgical removal of a small piece of bone from the cranium.
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Cracking Cancer's Secret Code: Oncologist Searches for Breast Cancer’s Achilles’ Heel

June 26, 2013
Over the last decade, oncologist Jennifer Pietenpol has been trying to decode and kill a difficult-to-treat type of breast cancer. Known as triple-negative breast cancer, this form of the disease can be highly aggressive and resistant to chemotherapy.

Healing By Numbers: GE Software Investment Will Grow Industrial Internet for Healthcare

June 12, 2013

Nobody likes waiting and doctors at Florida’s Aventura Hospital and Medical Center hate crowded waiting rooms as much as their patients.

That’s why last year Aventura invested in AgileTrac, a GE software system that pools and crunches gigabytes of patient and equipment data zipping across a hospital-size digital network. 

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A Physicist Walks Into a Bar...: How a Random Encounter Helped TrackDown Elusive Pain

May 30, 2013

A decade ago, Yale physicist Kevin Koch was “just hitting the bars” when he struck a random conversation with a fellow graduate student at Gryphon’s Pub, a Yale student hangout. As such affairs go, they were soon discussing neuroscience, consciousness, brain imaging and other heady matters. “This student had just come from a lecture by Robert Shulman, a biophysicist and the founder of Yale’s Magnetic Resonance Research Center (MRRC), an important research hub for using magnetic resonance to study the brain,” Koch says.

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Hollis Potter and the Pursuit of Pain: Dr. Potter and a GE Physicist Probe the Magnetic Field to Find Where It Hurts

May 15, 2013

Some people are searching for happiness, radiologist Dr. Hollis Potter is looking for pain. Potter runs the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) division and imaging research at Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan. She has spent the last 15 years tracking down pain gnawing at her patients’ metal hips, knees and other implants. Then a partnership with a young physicist from GE Healthcare has helped her to crack the riddle.

Digital Healing: How Big Data Helped Florida Hospital Get on Track

May 03, 2013
Like many American hospitals, the Aventura Hospital and Medical Center in Aventura, Florida, has long faced crowded waiting rooms and sought a more streamlined process for tracking empty beds and equipment. The technology that fixed the problem was hiding inside a small plastic wristband the size of a digital watch. “I call it the diamond bracelet,” says charge nurse Cheryl Smith. “You don’t want to lose it.”
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The Brilliant Soap Box: Hospital Uses the Industrial Internet to Fight Hospital Infections

April 15, 2013

We’ve all marveled at the image of the heroic surgeon whose calm voice and steady hands save the patient. But, in some ways, the most consistently heroic act health care providers can take comes in the moments before the surgery begins.

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