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Medical Imaging

This MRI Imaging Technique Helped Clinicians Unmask Silent Liver Disease

Tomas Kellner
March 24, 2016
Nobody wants to be told they are going to die. Yet that’s the prognosis Wayne Eskridge received from his doctors in 2010. The diagnosis was a stage-four case of cirrhosis of the liver. As he and his family despaired over the future, he received another medical opinion, saying this time that he was fine with no liver disease. He was counting his blessings, but later the emotional rollercoaster took another dive when the diagnosis reversed once more.
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Medical Imaging

New Production Process Could Help Break Imaging Isotope Shortage

Erin Bryant
December 21, 2015
As aging nuclear reactors require increased maintenance, and even shut down completely, the strain on their production is being felt far beyond the energy industry: inside oncology and cardiac clinics. But help is on the way.
Every year, doctors order as many as 40 million medical imaging scans that require a radioactive isotope called technetium-99m (Tc-99m). The scans help them diagnose cancer, heart disease and other serious maladies.
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Big Data

Meet Your Digital Twin: Internet For The Body Is Coming And These Engineers Are Building It

Tomas Kellner
December 18, 2015
Let’s be honest: November isn’t the best time to visit Helsinki. But the gloom that envelops the Finnish capital every autumn didn’t stop some 15,000 visitors from descending on Slush, one of the world’s largest tech gatherings, which drew 1,700 startups this year as well as Google, Nokia and GE.
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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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Michael Elliott: Davos in the Age of Miracles

Michael Elliott The One Campaign
January 20, 2015
If you’re ever looking for a reason to go to Switzerland in the winter, here’s one: admiring the local railroad system.
 
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The Next Big (or Really, Really Tiny) Thing in 3D Printing

GE Look Ahead
December 23, 2014

How to print blood vessels. And apartment buildings

A wedding ring holding a piece of moon rock. Hydroponic garden structures tailored to any shape desired. Jet engine fuel nozzles. An Aston Martin template: These are but a few examples on the growing roster of 3D-printed structures that steadily made tech headlines over the past 18 months.
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Perspectives

How Big Data Can Help Contain Ebola — Q&A with Joy Alamgir

Joy Alamgir Xerox
December 02, 2014
When a disease outbreak strikes, it’s often the fear of the unknown that causes panic — rather than any sense of the actual risk of falling ill. Just ask people who were in Dallas or New York City when cases of Ebola were discovered there.
 
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Microscopic 'Walkers' Find Their Way Across Cell Surfaces

Mit News
November 28, 2014

Technology could provide a way to deliver probes or drugs to cell structures without outside guidance.

Nature has developed a wide variety of methods for guiding particular cells, enzymes, and molecules to specific structures inside the body: White blood cells can find their way to the site of an infection, while scar-forming cells migrate to the site of a wound. But finding ways of guiding artificial materials within the body has proven more difficult.

 
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Perspectives

Why Advanced Materials are Drivers for the Future Economy — Q&A with Angela Belcher

GE Look Ahead
Angela Belcher Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
November 07, 2014
Carbon fibre composites, ceramics, nanomaterials and other advanced materials with high-performance characteristics are increasingly finding their way into automobiles, building materials, clothing and other large consumer-oriented markets. Demand for carbon fibre-reinforced plastic is expected to grow 15% annually through 2020, for example, according to Deloitte.
 
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Mark Masselli and Daren Anderson: Project ECHO Empowers Providers at the Frontlines of Care

Daren Anderson Community Health Center Inc
Mark Masselli Community Health Center Inc
October 21, 2014
One of the biggest challenges of primary healthcare is ensuring frontline providers receive necessary guidance for managing complex and chronic health problems, especially as advances in treatment change rapidly.
 

This need is particularly acute when treating poor and underserved populations. But a new tool that leverages technology to link specialists with primary care providers is making big inroads, with the hope of reaching 1 billion people by 2025.
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