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Healthcare

GE To Sell Its BioPharma Unit For $21.4 Billion To Danaher

Tomas Kellner
February 25, 2019

GE announced plans on Monday to sell its BioPharma business to Danaher for approximately $21.4 billion, including $21 billion in cash. GE Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp Jr. said the deal was a “pivotal milestone” that “demonstrates that we are executing on our strategy by taking thoughtful and deliberate action to reduce leverage and strengthen our balance sheet.”

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Innovation

Some Like It Cold: How Europe’s Hottest Startup Scene Hatched In Wintry Finland

Tomas Kellner
December 20, 2018

Helsinki in early December can be a dark and chilly place, but Timo Heikkinen had a bounce in his step walking through Slush, Europe’s largest startup gathering, earlier this month. The conclave, named for the Finnish capital's ubiquitous winter feature, was started in 2011 by a group of entrepreneurial engineering students keen on finding kindred spirits. "Our whole point was not to play pretty, but focus on content," a former organizer said.

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Medical Imaging

Examining the Fetal Heart: This Software Is Helping Find Once-Hidden Features Of Congenital Heart Defects

Liza Smith
December 19, 2018

Even for specialists, detecting and treating congenital heart defects is never easy. These defects are relatively rare and often give no warning signs. Diagnosing them during pregnancy is especially difficult. At 18 weeks, for example, you’re dealing with a developing organ that can be the size of an olive and beating between 120 and 160 times per minute.

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Ultrasound in the life of a Broome-based midwife

Natalie Filatoff
December 12, 2018
With 13 years and counting in the Broome Aboriginal Medical Service (BRAMS), Tamsen Prunster, a second-generation registered nurse and midwife is the trusted go-to for a wide community of expectant and new mums. In a practice that usually has 50-60 pregnant women on its books, Prunster says ultrasound is an indispensable tool for checking in on babies in utero. When invited to extend her ultrasound knowledge and apply for the 2018 Zedu-GE Rural and Remote Ultrasound Scholarship, Prunster didn’t hesitate and wrote the winning application.
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3D Printing

Please Touch: GE Is Helping America's Largest Healthcare Provider Bring 3D Printing To Its Hospitals

Amy Kover
December 08, 2018

About three years ago, Dr. Beth Ripley had a patient in denial. Though Ripley and several other radiologists identified a tumor growing on the woman’s kidney, she refused to believe it — mainly because the treatment, a surgery involving removing her entire kidney, sounded terrifying.

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Maternal health

‘They Brought Her Up To My Face, And I Thought I Was Saying Goodbye’: Just 1.5 Pounds At Birth, This Girl Is Now The Best Reader In Her Class

Liza Smith
November 28, 2018
In the corner of the second-grade classroom at Safa School in Dubai, Grace’s nose is buried in a Harry Potter book. She looks like any other eager 9-year-old reader. Only the pinprick scars on her hands and feet expose the months she struggled to survive her premature birth.
In 2009, Grace’s mom, Niamh Graham, was thrilled to learn she was pregnant with her first child. She experienced a smooth pregnancy until the 24th week, when, while walking slowly on the treadmill, she felt a strange sensation in her stomach.
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Medical Imaging

An Image Worth A Thousand Words: In Indonesia, A Hospital Uses Technology To Make Radiology Images Available Faster

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 11, 2018
Indonesia is in the middle of an economic boom. Last year GDP rose 5.1 percent, the country’s highest growth rate in four years. That expansion has helped Indonesia’s government launch a universal health care program, among other initiatives. As of 2017, three years into the program, 70 percent of the population — roughly 181 million people — had signed up for some level of government-sponsored healthcare.
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biotechnology

Chill Out: New Freezing Technology Could Help Deliver The Future Of Medicine

Sam Worley
Mckenna Bryant
September 26, 2018
When Dr. Edward Scott started his career as a hematologist in the 1970s, he diagnosed blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, treating them with traditional methods such as chemotherapy, transfusions and bone marrow transplants.
But as medical technologies evolved and treatments became more targeted, he found his company was spending more and more time isolating and capturing components of the blood called mononuclear cells, which are critical to the immune system — and an integral component in today’s cutting-edge cell therapies.
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Electrification Software Healthcare

A New App Sees Signs Of Sepsis Risk In Hospital Patients — And Spurs Staff To Action

Jennifer Fox
Sam Worley
September 26, 2018
Every year, more than 1.5 million Americans develop sepsis, an illness that occurs when the body exhibits an extreme reaction to an infection. It’s an elusive and stubborn condition that causes 250,000 deaths annually. “Sepsis is difficult to diagnose, and if not treated early, is associated with high mortality rates,” says Dr. Matthias Merkel, medical director of adult critical care and chief medical capacity officer at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon.
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Slam Dunk: A New MRI Scanner Helps Offer Hope For Injured Basketball Players, Cancer Patients

P D Olson
September 04, 2018
Edwin Oei has seen a lot of knees. The musculoskeletal radiologist at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands says around half of all scans at Dutch community hospitals focus on the hardworking joint, usually because of sporting accidents. The wrong kind of twist at a soccer game can tear the sliver of cartilage that acts as a cushion between the thighbone and shinbone, known as the meniscus.
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