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Robots

This Robot Doesn’t Feel Your Pain

January 05, 2017
As the approaching winter solstice shrouded Oslo in gloom and darkness last month, the workers at a GE factory located in the Norwegian capital found their cheer in a bright green robot known affectionately, if not officially, as “Hulk.”
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medicine

Flesh Memory: This Company Uploaded The Heart Into The Cloud

Tomas Kellner
December 15, 2016
GER: You didn’t turn Steven into an engineer, but he turned you into a moviemaker.
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medicine

From Preemie to Preschool: The Miracle Twins Strike Back

Jane Nicholls
December 08, 2016
Twin brothers Ethan and Noah Caisley are typical mischievous 4-year-olds. Just the other day, they came up with a plan for one of them to bust out of their preschool while the other created a distraction. The teachers foiled their plot.
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medicine

Beam Me Up, Herve: This Engineer Helped Design A CT Machine That Accelerates To 70 Gs [Video]

Tomas Kellner
December 01, 2016
When the first group of American astronauts started training for space flight in the 1950s, Air Force doctors put them through a number of wrenching trials. In one, they had to endure many multiples of the force of gravity we experience at sea level — or G-force. John Glenn experienced 7.9 Gs during his first orbital flight, and others briefly went as high as 32 Gs on Houston’s infamous G Machine. “You couldn't lift your arm out of the couch above about 6 or 7 Gs,” Glenn told a historian. “Beyond that you were just supported there.”
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Cancer

This Paris Clinic Can Diagnose Breast Cancer In A Single Day

Tomas Kellner
November 29, 2016
The suburb of Villejuif in the south of Paris will never rival the Eiffel Tower as a destination site. Yet every day the brightly lit waiting rooms and cavernous hallways of the Gustave Roussy clinic located here fill with hundreds of visitors. Some of them have traveled thousand of miles in pursuit of hope.
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medicine

No Laughing Matter: The World Is Running Out Of Helium, But It Won’t Hold These MRI Engineers Down

Dorothy Pomerantz
Tomas Kellner
November 29, 2016
AS: The first computers I built were data-acquisition systems. Their job was to monitor defects. They were a wire-programmed system, which means that they were uniquely designed to do just that job. Another computer called GE-312 monitored a turbine for Southern California Edison. We didn’t dare to control it because that required stops and starts, which could have endangered the machine’s life. The function then was just to make sure that it stayed within specified temperature ranges and that all the contacts were opened or closed as prescribed.
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Cancer

Seeing the Unseen: Ultrasound's New Role in the Fight Against Breast Cancer

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 28, 2016
Patti Beyer is a positive person by nature. But the 64-year-old retired educator was concerned after she requested, and received, a breast ultrasound-screening exam. After years of normal mammograms her doctor said she needed to follow up with a needle biopsy. Something was wrong.
She got the dreaded news a few days later while waiting for her luggage in the Washington D.C. airport: it was invasive breast cancer.
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medicine

Eye Robot: New Virtual Onsite Trainers Are Helping Hospitals Get The Most Out Of New Technology

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 27, 2016

In the hushed halls of the Universitario Quironsalud hospital in Madrid, there’s a new sound — the chatter of experts who are thousands of miles away helping doctors get the most out of their new high-tech diagnostic equipment.

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Working Magic: FDA Clears New Speedy MRI Scanning Technique

Kristin Kloberdanz
October 02, 2016
It takes about half an hour to have your brain scanned inside a magnetic resonance machine (MRI). Many people relax and tune out as they slide inside the snug scanning tunnel for the painless procedure. But for some people, claustrophobia can set in. Children and the elderly especially can perceive the 30 minutes as an eternity.
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startup

Sharp As A Tack: This Smart Needle Is Helping Doctors Make Better Diagnoses

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 12, 2016
Neonatal meningitis in one of the leading causes of infant mortality in the western world, but getting an early diagnosis isn’t easy. Doctors need to collect a sample of spinal fluid, a painful and onerous procedure for anyone. For the tiniest patients, there’s the added risk that the needle being used to draw the fluid will damage delicate tissues.
But at Tampere University Hospital in Finland, doctors were recently able to test a two-day-old, 6-pound baby for meningitis using a smart needle that removed much of the risk and made the process less painful.
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