Health Care News

The other wonder woman: India, Indonesia and Kenya’s real-life heroines June 24, 2017
Heroines of Health, a documentary told 1 minute a day, beginning to end, on Instagram premieres today “The society expects us to stay at home and take care of children,” says Mercy Owuor, a community leader in Lwala, Kenya, in Heroines of Health. At the start of each week, she sets out away from her […]
PulseAdmin2013
Booming Biologics Industry Calls for Additional Production Capacity June 20, 2017
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies responds to the increasing demand by building UK’s first fully single-use biomanufacturing facility in only 14 months Biopharmaceuticals are the world’s fastest-growing class of medicines; of the top ten therapeutics on the market today by revenue, seven are biopharmaceuticals and these therapies are about to make an even bigger impact in healthcare […]
PulseAdmin2013
From Call to Cath Lab in 57 Minutes, Man is Saved by the Help of Technology His Colleagues Made June 19, 2017
He dedicated his career to making medical technology that can help save patients’ lives. He just never anticipated being one of these patients Ken Denison has dedicated his career to making medical imaging equipment that can help save patients’ lives. But when he joined GE Healthcare 20 years ago to create CT scanners and other […]
PulseAdmin2013
Unlocking efficiency in drug discovery June 15, 2017
Meet Sygnature Discovery, the company recruiting new scientists every week to help support ambitious client drug discovery programs Right now, scientists are working hard to find the next blockbuster drug. In laboratories across the world, millions of molecules are being screened against challenging drug targets. Those with potential will then be chemically optimised to improve […]
PulseAdmin2013
Wonder-Material: Giving Radiologists SPECTacular Images June 10, 2017
It’s called Cadmium Zinc Telluride, or CZT, and its crystals grow slowly in a furnace room over the course of about ten days When gamma camera technology was first demonstrated in 1957, the combination of whole-organ imaging and three-dimensional scanning was a technological marvel of the decade, up there with color TV. Of course, TV […]
PulseAdmin2013
Healthcare will be the Industry that Propels More Women into Leadership June 8, 2017
Speaking at the 2017 Social Innovation Summit, Terri Bresenham explains why stories from countries in India, Southeast Asia and Africa are already showing why This week social innovation, business and technology meet, as some of the world’s leading thinkers descend on the 2017 Social Innovation Summit. With speakers from government to startups, the goal of […]
PulseAdmin2013
Biopharma is making its own luck in Ireland June 8, 2017
A new exceptional facility will train 1,500 people per year in single-use technologies Ireland’s reputation as a quaint, quiet island of rolling green hills and friendly villagers in pubs belies a new truth about the Emerald Isle: It’s a leader in the biotech industry, with billions being invested in high-quality facilities and research. But as […]
PulseAdmin2013
Making MRI MAGiC by Cutting Scan Time for Patients and Docs June 6, 2017
American Journal of Neuroradiology Publishes MAGiC Results 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 into the bore. But for some people, claustrophobia can set in. But long brain scans may soon be a thing of […]
PulseAdmin2013
How Low Can a Hospital’s Flow Go? June 1, 2017
Hospitals harness big data to help improve outcomes in the operating room We live in a digital world, and hospitals are no exception. Take for example the machines in an operating room. They generate thousands of data points, and yet only a fraction is typically harvested and saved in hospitals’ electronic medical record systems. Hospitals […]
PulseAdmin2013
Making Surgery the Next Frontier in Global Health May 25, 2017
A mother who urgently needs a C-section. A child cradling a badly broken arm. A man who suddenly collapses at his office. What do they have in common? They are part of the 5 billion people around the world who don’t have access to safe, affordable surgical and anesthesia care when they need it. Each […]
PulseAdmin2013