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Healthcare

Breaking News: This Engineer Puts Medical Devices Through The Wringer

Tomas Kellner
January 13, 2020

Rami Koivunen is quick with a laugh and likes to tell self-deprecating jokes. But if the devices he works on could talk, they might confess that this Finn is no fun when it comes to pushing their buttons.

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ai

Just What The Software Ordered: This AI Could Help Finnish Doctors Spot Cancer

Tomas Kellner
March 26, 2018
In 2014, three young men from far-flung parts of the world teamed up in Finland with an audacious plan that could soon help doctors save more lives, not to mention money, and chart a new course for healthcare.
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mobile

He Puts Sunshine In Your Pocket: Tespack’s Mobile Solar Power Plant Charges Gadgets On The Go

August 09, 2017
You can access 2 million apps on your mobile devices, but what are they good for when the battery runs out? Nada, says entrepreneur Mario Aguilera, who learned the drawbacks of quick-draining batteries the hard way in the late 1990s while serving in the Bolivian army.
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startup

Sharp As A Tack: This Smart Needle Is Helping Doctors Make Better Diagnoses

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 12, 2016
Neonatal meningitis in one of the leading causes of infant mortality in the western world, but getting an early diagnosis isn’t easy. Doctors need to collect a sample of spinal fluid, a painful and onerous procedure for anyone. For the tiniest patients, there’s the added risk that the needle being used to draw the fluid will damage delicate tissues.
But at Tampere University Hospital in Finland, doctors were recently able to test a two-day-old, 6-pound baby for meningitis using a smart needle that removed much of the risk and made the process less painful.
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Biologics

Gone Protein Fishing: Sweden Is Building A Hub For Medicine’s Future In The Home Of Its Past

July 20, 2016
The Swedish town of Uppsala has been a center of medical innovation for the past 350 years. In 1663, the University of Uppsala opened an anatomical theatre built into the cupola of the Gustavianum, the main building on the Uppsala University campus. Inside, future doctors and also the paying public watched from narrow, tiered, octagonal balconies as professors dissected executed criminals and animals.
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Innovation

Startups Get Flush With Slush: Plucky Finnish Tech Conference Draws Global Sellout Crowd

Tomas Kellner
November 14, 2015
In 2011, a group of students at Aalto University in Helsinki grew frustrated that startups in the Finnish capital were having a hard time finding each other. “There was no ecosystem for them and for the people who wanted to work for them,” says Riku Mäkelä, who studies business and engineering at Aalto. “But when they started talking to young entrepreneurs, they realized that this was a Europe-wide problem. They decided to do something about it.”
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