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Nadeem Ishaque: Imaging the Brain in Real-Time
Isaac Asimov described the human brain as “the most complicated organization of matter that we know.” Despite extraordinary advancements in multiple disciplines of science and technology over the last...
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Grayson Brulte: Revisiting the Doctor Visit
Today we are more in tune with our health than any other time in history. This new focus on health and change in consumer behavior is largely being driven by startups in Silicon Valley and innovative...
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Tackling Brain Injuries — Q&A with the NFL’s Jeff Miller
Preventing brain injury is a team sport. That’s why the NFL has teamed up with GE and Under Armour to promote some of the most innovative thinking on protecting against and diagnosing concussions....
View ArticleMicroscopic `Walkers’ Find Their Way Across Cell Surfaces
Technology could provide a way to deliver probes or drugs to cell structures without outside guidance. Nature has developed a wide variety of methods for guiding particular cells, enzymes, and...
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How Big Data Can Help Contain Ebola — Q&A with Joy Alamgir
When a disease outbreak strikes, it’s often the fear of the unknown that causes panic — rather than any sense of the actual risk of falling ill. Just ask people who were in Dallas or New York City when...
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Brinnon Garrett Mandel: Finding a Path Forward in Global Health Innovation
“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” — Tuli Kupferberg, American poet Innovation shouldn’t be easy. It requires understanding and breaking through existing patterns — in technology,...
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Andrew Tatem: How Mobiles Could Aid Disaster Response
There are now more mobile phones in use than there are people in the world to use them — some 7.2 billion phones. Mobile phones are becoming integral parts of our lives, penetrating into areas of the...
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Michael Elliott: Davos in the Age of Miracles
If you’re ever looking for a reason to go to Switzerland in the winter, here’s one: admiring the local railroad system. Two years ago, I got off a train at Zurich airport, and a few minutes later...
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Ban Ki-moon: Why 2015 Will Be the Year of Sustainability
2015 will be an historic year for the United Nations. The Organization will celebrate its 70th anniversary, offering a chance to look back on its contributions to peace, human rights and development...
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How an MRI May Help Win the Battle Against Malaria — Q&A with Dr. Terrie Taylor
Malaria remains a deadly threat to many. Despite the development of effective drugs, it kills one child every minute. A new discovery, enabled by MRI imaging, could prevent unnecessary deaths from the...
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Erin Will Morton: Global Health Innovation — A Shared Responsibility
Innovation can help tackle some of our greatest global health challenges. But to attract the necessary investment and achieve our goals, we must work together as a global community. New health...
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How Wearable Toys Are Helping Solve the Healthcare Crisis
Despite the promise of a revolution in health, consumer wearables thus far have delivered little more than a flood of meaningless data. Finally, that’s starting to change. A new approach that combines...
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Is Health Care Too Big To Fail? Or Is Failure Exactly What We Need?
The U.S. ranks first in per capita health spending but last in health system performance of 11 major developed countries. And the way we use our money for health care — 38 percent of which goes to...
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How Robots Could Help Chronically Ill Kids Attend School
Students with chronic illness often get only a few hours of education a week. Telepresence robots could let them participate fully in classroom and school activities, write Veronica Ahumada Newhart and...
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The End Of The Waiting Room?
How telemedicine is set to change the healthcare industry. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that growing rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and...
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General Electric: Championing Sports Innovation
Athletes are a special division of people set apart from the rest. Call them super humans, if you’d like. Studies show that athletes have lower risks of contracting disease, a higher tolerance for...
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Andrew Tatem: How Mobiles Could Aid Disaster Response
There are now more mobile phones in use than there are people in the world to use them — some 7.2 billion phones. Mobile phones are becoming integral parts of our lives, penetrating into areas of the...
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Michael Elliott: Davos in the Age of Miracles
If you’re ever looking for a reason to go to Switzerland in the winter, here’s one: admiring the local railroad system. Two years ago, I got off a train at Zurich airport, and a few minutes later...
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Ban Ki-moon: Why 2015 Will Be the Year of Sustainability
2015 will be an historic year for the United Nations. The Organization will celebrate its 70th anniversary, offering a chance to look back on its contributions to peace, human rights and development...
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How an MRI May Help Win the Battle Against Malaria — Q&A with Dr. Terrie Taylor
Malaria remains a deadly threat to many. Despite the development of effective drugs, it kills one child every minute. A new discovery, enabled by MRI imaging, could prevent unnecessary deaths from the...
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