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Scanning the north for an end to rheumatic heart disease

June 05, 2015
What if … RHD could be eliminated worldwide? It would save more than 300,000 lives each year. And the 30 million young people who are currently estimated to have the disease would be treated. Young pregnant Aboriginal women living in remote communities would have a much improved chance of surviving childbirth, and their children could grow up with a mum and without the risk of infection.
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Heart to heart: city and country coronary survival stats draw equal in SA

May 20, 2015
In South Australia passionate health crusaders have ensured that survival of country-based heart-attack patients is on a par with outcomes in the city (fast-talking GE machines helped accelerate results). As South Australia’s successful iCCnet initiative crosses the borders into NT, WA, Victoria and beyond, its director talks about how machine-to-machine communications will continue to improve recovery of cardiac patients across the land!
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Heart attack or indigestion? Fast-tracking finding out

April 29, 2015
The National Heart Foundation's 2015 Heart Week is less about promoting awareness of heart-attack warning signs and more about the risks of general slothfulness in this multi-screen-tethered age. All the same, as the campaign encourages people to focus on their tickers, it's possible that even more of them will be showing up in a hospital emergency department with chest pain, a presenting symptom that tends to put patients fairly high on the triage list.
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Perspectives

Marching Toward a Cure — Q&A With Ted Thompson of the Parkinson’s Action Network

Ted Thompson Parkinsons Action Network
April 22, 2015

There’s no cure yet for Parkinson’s, and even diagnosing the disease remains a challenge. Yet Ted Thompson remains confident that the best is yet to come for people who have the neurological disorder, thanks to relentless efforts to find innovative ways to treat, diagnose — and eventually cure — the disease.

 
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A day in the life of a trauma surgeon

March 17, 2015
Professor Russell Gruen is an internationally regarded general-and-trauma surgeon, currently working at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. He is also Professor of Surgery and Public Health at Monash University, Director of the National Trauma Research Institute (NTRI) and leads the Centre for Excellence in Traumatic Brain Injury Research for the Victorian Transport Accident Commission.
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Deborah Kilpatrick: Bringing Digital Health Back to the Future

Deborah Kilpatrick Evidation Health
March 05, 2015

Digital health products hold great promise to transform healthcare but need to return to the roots of evidence-best medicine to reach their full potential.

 

A new breed of disruptive digital health products is entering the market, claiming to be better, cheaper and easier to use than traditional alternatives. Digital technologies are rapidly revolutionizing the healthcare ecosystem, allowing patients and physicians to interact anytime, anywhere.
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How to Fix a Broken Heart: Valentine's Day Technology Special

February 14, 2015
Love and the heart go together like chocolates and Valentine’s Day. Starting with the ancient Egyptians, and maybe even sooner, humans believed that the heart was where the soul, emotions and wisdom dwelled.
It was the only internal organ the Egyptians did not remove during mummification “so that the Goddess Ma’at might weigh it against the feather of truth in the afterlife and punish the heavy-hearted,” writes cultural historian Iain Gately.
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All I want for 2015...

February 13, 2015
We tapped 11 leading lights from Australian business, industry, education and innovation, and asked them for their think-big aspirations.
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How Ebola Impacts Economic Health: CDC's Tom Frieden Explains

Dr Tom Frieden Centers For Disease Control And Prevention
February 12, 2015

CDC leader explains how the Ebola epidemic in West Africa — the largest in history — is reminder of the important connection between health and economic security.

 
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Counter Intelligence: GE developing the At-A-Glance Calorie Calculator

February 02, 2015
Illustration by Victoria Roberts
Being unable to assess the portions of food you eat for an oversupply of kilojoules is a modern dilemma that’s leading to overweight on a large scale—enter the instant calorie calculator.
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