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The inside story: watching a baby dolphin grow

August 25, 2016
The expectant mother dutifully presents her belly for the ultrasonic gel and remains still as the attending doctor slides the GE ultrasound probe across her skin, finding the foetus pulsing and moving peacefully inside her uterus.
“The beautiful thing about ultrasound is that we can determine how old the foetus is and we can determine a due date for parturition, so that we can manage her a bit better,” says Dr David Blyde, “because we will generally separate the female out a few weeks before she’s due to give birth.”
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Seeing is believing: How ultrasound eases rheumatoid arthritis

August 25, 2016
A painter who performs her artistic work live at events, who has a 3-year-old daughter and a 7-month-old baby girl, wakes up one morning and thinks, “What is this? Why are my hands so big? Why are my knees so swollen?”
At the age of 30, Sarah Rowan Dahl was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic inflammatory disease in which a person’s own immune system begins destroying their joints.
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The inner athlete: medical imaging and psychology at the Olympic Games

August 10, 2016
At the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Dr Scott Burne was a medical registrar and volunteer working with the Olympic Games Polyclinic. They were his first Games and he was a little awestruck by the calibre of competitors he was treating, but recalls putting this aside to become a calming presence for athletes in distress.
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A Winning Idea: How The Cloud Helps Olympic Athletes Avoid Injury

August 09, 2016
For most Olympic athletes, the biggest fear is not failing to win a gold medal but falling victim to a last-minute injury that destroys years of hard work and endless hours of practice. But doctors working with big data and cloud-based software are competing to make those heart-breaking injuries less likely.
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On call for Olympic athletes: MRIs, ultrasounds and digital X-rays

August 03, 2016
The Olympic Games is a festival of physicality, with the superhuman feats of thousands of athletes, a source of awe for billions of mortals spectating from couches around the world. Behind those peak performances are hundreds of doctors, physios, massage therapists, dietitians, conditioning coaches and others.
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Biologics

Think Inside The Box: Pfizer Will Use GE's Mobile Biotech Factory To Make Next-Generation Drugs In China

June 30, 2016
Americans and Europeans are most likely to die from heart disease. But in China, the leading cause of death is cancer. The disease killed nearly 3 million Chinese in 2015 alone and the country's doctors have few drugs available to fight the epidemic. As grim as the numbers look, they could soon start changing. That's because healthcare reforms recently enacted by the Chinese government support local production of a next-generation class of drugs called biopharmaceuticals and new, flexible drug production methods.
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Innovation that Cares

June 29, 2016
Indonesia is a thriving, expanding nation of over 250 million people. Yet it is a nation set over 17,000 islands, with significant challenges to healthcare provision.  According to 2013 research, Indonesia has just 1.07 hospital beds per 1,000 citizens[i]. Compare that to neighbour Malaysia with 1.9[ii] beds per 1,000 citizens, and you start to see the challenge. Now consider that challenge in the context of a population estimated to reach 300 million over the next 10 years.
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Tapping into the data flow: innovation leaders float big ideas

June 22, 2016
As data billows into the Cloud and innovation leapfrogs the impossible, stakeholders are seeking to shape the future and deliver solutions that make a difference. The 2016 GE/CSIRO Digital Industrial Series brings together the worlds of research and entrepreneurship, of business and industry to create a confluence of ideas that deliver!
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Sensors

Sweat Equity: These Wireless Skin Sensors Could Check Your Vital Signs And Monitor Your Health

June 10, 2016
Anil Duggal has always had a knack for invention — the GE Global Research chief scientist has 98 U.S. patents to his name. Now, with the support of his colleagues Jeff Ashe and Azar Alizadeh, Duggal is on the verge of turning years of abandoned research into what might be the world’s most advanced skin-surface medical sensors.
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Aussie “monsters” scoop international grant for knee-pain research

May 22, 2016
Professional basketballers and weekend warriors are hooping for joy as researchers accelerate investigations into one of the sport’s most persistent and debilitating injuries—jumper’s knee, also known as patellar tendinopathy.
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