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Healthcare

Frozen: How Do You Bring Cutting-Edge X-Ray Tech To A Snowy Island Off The Coast Of Alaska?

Dorothy Pomerantz
May 30, 2018
Gambell, Alaska, is one of the few points in North America where you can see Russia on a clear day. The land around the tiny town, on the northwest tip of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, is barren without a tree in sight — nothing grows over 6 inches high on the tundra. Most of the year the town is covered in snow. The local Yupik people follow their traditional subsistence lifestyle of hunting and eating whales, seals and other marine life, which helps connect them to their strong cultural roots and is more affordable than importing a typical Western diet to such an isolated place.
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Medical Imaging

Skin In The Game: Gaming AI Helps Doctors Capture Clear Images Of The Body

Kristin Kloberdanz
April 16, 2018
A man who suffered a grave thigh injury a month earlier recently returned to Rhode Island Hospital because of pain and swelling in his wound. The cut now appeared to be infected and required a minor surgery to drain the accumulating fluid. But first, the doctor ordered an ultrasound to make sure nothing else was going on in the affected area.
The ultrasound technologist scanned the patient’s leg and collected a tiny amount of fluid. The technologist also snapped a photo of the wound with a smartphone and uploaded it to an app.
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Medical Imaging

Little Wonders: Neonatal Surgeon Captures Stunning Images With 4D Ultrasound

Liza Smith
March 29, 2018
A couple years ago, neonatal surgeon Jin-Chung Shih was preparing to treat a pair of twins still snug in their mother’s womb. The babies suffered from twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, a rare but serious complication that occurs when there is an imbalance in the blood flow between identical twins who share a placenta. He had to decide whether to operate on the twins in the womb.
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Medical Imaging

Seeing With Sound: From Bats and Submarines to AI-Powered Medical Imaging

Liza Smith
January 18, 2018
The Italian priest and scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani ran a series of experiments in the 1790s and discovered that blindfolded bats were able to find their way around and catch flies. Yet, when he took off the blindfolds and covered the bats’ ears, they were hopeless. This puzzling finding inspired his colleague, the Swiss surgeon Louis Jurine, to focus on the ears as the seat of bats’ “vision.”
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Here’s Looking At You, Kid: A High-Tech Ultrasound Opens New Vistas For This Veteran Physician

Mckenna Bryant
November 27, 2017
When Dr. Lawrence Platt started his career as an obstetrician and gynecologist 40 years ago, he was fascinated by ultrasound technology. Each time he scanned a patient, he created a grainy black-and-white image of the baby, then drew a picture on top of the ultrasound to help the parents-to-be understand what they were seeing. “For me, an ultrasound is like the Lay’s commercial: I bet you can’t scan just one,” he says.
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 29, 2017
A real flying car landed at the Paris Air Show, Michelin unveiled a vision for 3D-printed tires you will never have to replace, and a team in North Carolina developed a smart patch that “harvests” body heat and turns it into electricity. What a powerful idea!
 

 

A Flying Car Arrives At Paris Air Show

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future of medicine

Digital Medicine: How Can AI Help You?

Albert Hsiao M D Ph D
February 17, 2017

Before Albert Hsiao became a radiologist, he didn’t know performing electrical measurements in the cerebellum of rats or learning about neural networks in college would be relevant to caring for patients today. This year, the start-up he helped co-found received FDA-approval for its first Deep Learning product in the cardiac imaging space. Not only can technology like this help tackle the looming doctor shortage, it provides "some hope for us to return to our roots as medical doctors" and "to be better listeners," Hsiao writes.

 
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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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Precision Medicine

New Nuclear Scanner Gives Doctors An Inside View Of The Body

Tomas Kellner
May 20, 2016

For millennia, doctors hoping to catch a glimpse of what’s happening inside a patient had very few options aside from cutting the body open. But that changed in 1957, when American electrical engineer Hal Anger invented the gamma camera and doctors were able to see what was going on inside of cells.

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Medical Imaging

This MRI Imaging Technique Helped Clinicians Unmask Silent Liver Disease

Tomas Kellner
March 24, 2016
Nobody wants to be told they are going to die. Yet that’s the prognosis Wayne Eskridge received from his doctors in 2010. The diagnosis was a stage-four case of cirrhosis of the liver. As he and his family despaired over the future, he received another medical opinion, saying this time that he was fine with no liver disease. He was counting his blessings, but later the emotional rollercoaster took another dive when the diagnosis reversed once more.
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