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Breast Cancer

This Nuclear Physicist Is Using Her Skills and Passion to Build a Better Mammography Machine

December 03, 2015
In the 1960s, French radiologist Charles Gros working at University of Strasbourg, asked the imaging machine maker Compagnie Générale de Radiologie (CGR) to find a way to build a dedicated device for X-ray breast imaging that would provide better images than conventional equipment and was also more comfortable for women.
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cloud-technology

Dr. Data: How the Health Cloud Will Help Doctors Combat Disease

Tomas Kellner
November 30, 2015
It takes a typical computer 6 hours to process information from a CT scanner to see exactly what's going on inside the head of a patient who’s just arrived at a hospital with certain stroke symptoms. But the typical window for treatment is limited to four hours - and likely moving to just three hours based on recent clinical studies. “Speed is one of the most important elements of treating stroke,” says Jan De Witte, president and CEO of GE Healthcare IT. “If doctors can intervene quickly, they can often help patients escape serious damage to the brain.”
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Popular Mechanics

Open Secrets: Not Even Chainsaw, Iron Mike, and GE Heart Monitor are Safe from This Pop Mechanics Crack Team

October 22, 2015
Ever since people started building things, many of us have burned with an even greater desire to take them apart.
But few can top photographer Todd McLellan and Ryan D’Agostino, editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics. They get to the bottom of big and complicated things on a monthly basis.
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Medical Imaging

Beautiful on the Inside: These Machines Reveal the Secrets of the Body

October 05, 2015
If a good picture is worth a thousand words, then these images are visual equivalent of War and Peace. GE imaging technology - from MRI machines to high-resolution microscopes - offers incredibly detailed snapshots of the body all the way down to the cellular level.
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genetics

The Ultimate Coders: Revolutionary New Tool Can Rewrite DNA

October 01, 2015
At the most fundamental level, we are all code. The typical human body is an assembly of some 37 trillion cells, and each holds all the information needed to make a complete human being.
Our DNA, the double-stranded helix responsible for heredity, contains 3 billion letters that dictate everything from hair and skin color to blood type. In fact, DNA is the most important identity document we will ever carry. Besides random mutations and damage, it doesn’t change from the day we’re born.
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Healthcare

How Insights from Building Jet Engines Help Doctors Spot Faulty Insurance Claim Denials

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 25, 2015
It’s an endless headache, a migraine really, for American health organizations and patients alike: claims for treatment denied by insurance companies, causing endless frustrating phone calls to get payment disputes resolved. Now, thanks to an innovation made across multiple GE businesses, relief could be at hand.
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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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Deep In The Amazon, Doctors Are Saving Lives

Erica Firmo
August 26, 2015
Fabiana Garcia is no Indiana Jones. But that didn’t stop her from packing her backpack with high-tech wireless medical equipment, grabbing her tent, boarding a Brazilian military plane and flying to a remote community deep inside the Amazon jungle a few weeks ago.
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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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Human Protein Atlas Charts the Road to Personalized Medicine

August 09, 2015
Over a decade ago, the Human Genome Project gave us the first blueprint of our genetic code, opening the door to a future where medical interventions could be personalized for each patient’s genetic composition. Today, programs like the Human Protein Atlas are zooming in even deeper, mapping out not just the DNA that defines our bodies, but also the building blocks – specifically, the proteins – that make them tick (or sick).
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