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Healthcare

Pills on Wheels: GE is Building the World’s Largest Modular Biologics Factory

Conor Mckechnie
September 21, 2015
 
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Super ultrasound helps doctors win the vein game

September 18, 2015
Anyone who’s ever endured a multi-attempt poking session in order to donate blood or have a blood test may well recall the faint-inducing frustration as the phlebotomist’s needle rummaged about for a suitable vein. That’s nothing compared to tiny babies who are about to undergo cardiac surgery, or who need an IV line for medication, or chronic patients of all ages who will require insertion of PICC lines and mid-lines over a lifetime of medical care.
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Perspectives

Brinnon Garrett Mandel: How a Loyalty Card Points the Way to Healthier Populations

Brinnon Garrett Mandel Jhpiego
September 16, 2015

The global health community can learn from local innovators, who are finding local solutions to local challenges.

Is your keychain full of loyalty cards with bar codes? I have several loyalty cards on my keychain, for grocery stores and gasoline discounts. Yet until recently, it hadn’t occurred to me how this model could inspire innovation in global health.
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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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The CT scanner to capture your heart—whatever your heart rate

September 03, 2015
As if it isn’t incredible enough that we can look inside the human body without breaking the skin, GE’s latest computed tomography scanner, the Revolution CT, achieves revolutionary clarity of internal imaging at radiation doses up to 82% lower than were previously required to achieve images half as clear.
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A human shield against HIV

August 27, 2015
Working across laboratories in Australia and in the US, Dr Geoff Symonds and the scientific team at gene-therapy company Calimmune are developing a novel approach to treating HIV. Yes, there are already treatments for HIV, and, says Symonds, “You can live a reasonable life taking drugs every day.” But only some 10% of the more than 34 million people currently living with HIV are properly controlling the disease with drugs—at a cost of around US$20 billion annually. And those drugs can also have severe side effects, especially in someone who has taken them for years.
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Ancestors of Billion-Year-Old Microbes Might Hold Clues to Evolution, Antibiotics, Cancer

August 09, 2015
The acidic bowels of Yellowstone’s hot springs, roiling subsea volcanic vents, and many other deadly and inhospitable places hide colonies of microorganisms that have for centuries eluded scientists. The microbes are now helping researchers shed light on the very beginning of life on Earth, and improve everything from gold extraction and sewage treatment to cancer drugs.
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Look! Up in the sky! It’s ultralight, lifesaving ultrasound!

July 24, 2015
After nine months of attending emergency scenes with GE’s Vscan handheld ultrasound in the top pocket of his backpack, Dr Alan Garner of CareFlight says he’d feel very nervous leaving the base without it. Ultrasound has in recent years become part of critical care in hospital situations, but ever lighter and more portable units have also enabled its use as part of at-the-scene patient assessments.
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Bringing Care to Patients in Faraway Places — Interview with Dr. Sanjeev Arora

Dr Sanjeev Arora Project Echo
July 13, 2015
Project ECHO arms caregivers at the frontlines with the knowledge they need to treat underserved populations.
 

 

When Dr. Sanjeev Arora was treating Hepatitis C patients in New Mexico a little over a decade ago, he was frustrated that thousands of people suffering from the liver disease could not get proper treatment because of the lack of specialists. So Arora, who worked in one of only two clinics in the entire state that treated hepatitis C, took action.
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Alicia Bonner Ness: Saving Lives with Access to Emergency Care, Anesthesia and Safe Surgery

Alicia Bonner Ness The New Global Citizen
June 09, 2015

Building a safe surgical infrastructure worldwide can save more than 17 million lives a year.

 

I remember with absolute clarity the moments before and after my appendix was removed. The procedure, performed laparoscopically, with a tiny laser and laparoscope inserted into my abdomen, took less than two hours and, once healed, left no scar. I was allowed to remain in the hospital for the rest of the day as I gradually regained my strength and, that evening, I was discharged.
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