Industry: Health Care Equipment & Services

Nick Watchorn was a first responder at the Port Arthur Mass Shooting in Tasmania. He worked the scene of the crime for days after, and was left with images that will never leave him. Shortly after, Nick left the Tasmanian police force and was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). For 20 years, Nick tried all kinds of treatment. From psychotherapy to pharmaceuticals, nothing worked.

When we first opened Imricor Medical’s website and turned to the About Us page, this is what we read: Imricor Medical Systems, Inc. (ASX:IMR) is a leading developer of innovative MRI-compatible medical devices which can be used to carry out MRI-guided cardiac catheter ablation procedures. It was at that moment we released this company is going to need a little explaining.

This article takes a look at the Long COVID clinic that has been set up at Yale Medical School and shares what doctors there are starting to find.

Private equity firms are investing heavily in healthcare, but a new study finds that this could lead to higher costs and worse care.

Here’s a stat that will blow you away: one in four people will have a stroke in their lifetime That number blew us away. The more we looked into it, the more we realised just how big a factor strokes will be in our lives and the lives of our friends and family. When it comes to strokes, time is brain. If you read those stats about strokes and got worried, you’re not alone. Today Alec talks to CEO Scott Kirkland about his vision for EMvision – where they offer healthcare systems a cheaper, more portable and more cost effective version. EMvision believes that one day they’ll be able to offer their portable brain scanner in a backpack. That means every ambulance can be equipped with one, transforming every ambulance into a mobile stroke unit.

Over the past six months it has been hard to miss, but we might still be underestimating the scale of what we’re living through.

As markets price in divergent trends, can the Federal Reserve cut rates without impacting the rest of the world?

This article takes us down to Mexico where a new generation of treatments are being trialled.

We uncover Hit-IQ, an Australian healthcare company working to create a smart mouthguard that helps professional and amateur athletes alike monitor head knocks when playing sport

Munro Partners provide an overview of a stock set to benefit from healthcare innovation.

A growing number of cancer patients, especially those with breast and lung cancers, are being spared chemotherapy and are able to explore other options. For decades, chemotherapy has been the best option when treating cancer.