Between 2014 and 2016 West Africa - starting in Guinea before moving to Sierra Leon and Liberia - faced the largest and most complex Ebola outbreak since the virus was first discovered in 1976. Over 28,000 cases of Ebola were reported and 11,315 people died. Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe, often deadly disease in humans that is transmitted from wild animals, spreading through human-to-human transmission.

Dr. Brown, a native of Washington, D.C., is a family practitioner with a rare practice: he only makes house visits. He sees patients in their homes, at their office or even at their hotel if they’re visiting from out of town. “House calls used to be incredibly common. Some of my geriatric patients still remember the name of their doctor who would make house visits,” Dr. Brown said.

Helping clinicians expand diagnostic capabilities and increase patient satisfaction, GE Healthcare has unveiled a new ultrasound system with impeccable image quality and advanced yet easy-to-use features. From obstetrics and gynecology to general practitioners and family practice physicians, Versana Essential offers an imaging system that enables clinicians to confidently deliver the next level of care to their patients. At an affordable cost, th...

GE Healthcare has announced FDA 510(k) clearance of an industry-first, patient-assisted mammography device that literally puts women in control of their mammograms. Senographe Pristina Dueta is an innovative remote control that allows women to manage their own compression during the exam performed on the company’s new mammography system, Senographe Pristina.

GE Healthcare has announced that SIGNA Premier, a new wide bore 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, is now available for sale in the U.S. SIGNA Premier is the result of a four-year collaboration with the National Football League (NFL) and research institutions around the world working to design new imaging tools, particularly to aid researchers in the detection of biomarkers for the potential diagnosis of mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

Erica Endicott was pregnant with her son, Kaden, when cardiologists at Phoenix Children’s Heart Center discovered that the left side of the boy’s heart was not growing properly. Kaden, who is healthy now, was treated by a team of doctors in Boston for the life-threatening condition. Following the procedure, they used data from an ultrasound system to create and print 3D models of Kaden’s heart before and after his surgery.