Accelerating access to healthcare technology

We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And through partnerships, education, and advocacy, we dismantle barriers to care so more people can benefit from these life-transforming innovations.

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LABS documentary
Fanny Ochoa, Community Health Worker

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From Interns to Innovators
Holton was a graduate student in her early 20s when she lost her own mother to metastatic breast cancer. The experience left her wondering: If women could get hands-on experience to learn what’s normal and what’s not in a self-exam, could it lead to earlier cancer detection?

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Got Their Backs: How Medtronic Brings Spine Surgeries to Kids
The volunteer teams typically take two to four mission trips every year. Three missions are planned for 2025. Each trip involves prepping, packing, shipping and setting up an entire, functioning operating room in another country — roughly 30 bins of precision medical equipment.

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Bravery Over Bladder: Former Marine Tackles Taboo Topic
In this episode of the Medtronic Open Book series, Latimore unabashedly shares more about his life and long journey to finding some relief from his overactive bladder symptoms.

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Teen With Spina Bifida Inspires in the Face of Physical Adversity
In this episode of the Medtronic series Open Book, Manny shares how spina bifida impacts his life in unseen ways.

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Can Math Help Detect Heart Disease Even Before You Know You’re Sick?
Artificial intelligence allows us to examine that data to identify certain types of heart disease sooner and get personalized treatment to the patient faster.

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Women and Heart Disease: Those Most at Risk Are Most in Need of the Conversation
This May, during Women’s Health Month and Mother’s Day, we encourage people to make the pledge to talk to their mother or the women in their lives about heart health.

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Medtronic: Rock ’n’ Roll Dad’s New Music Inspired by Son’s Diagnosis
Ralph Winkler has written a lot of music, but he never imagined one of his most popular songs would be inspired by one of the worst days for his family.

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Medtronic: Is the First Person To Live to 150 Already Among Us?
Scientists are now speculating that the first person to live to 150 years may already be among us. But where might this future supercentenarian call home?

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Medtronic LABS Documentary: Better Health for Everyone, Everywhere
Join us as we shadow Jane in her daily life in Kenya, where she educates her community on living with conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure.

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Medtronic: Managing Her Diabetes ‘Runner’s High’
High blood sugar, called hyperglycemia, occurs in people with diabetes when there is not enough insulin to regulate the amount of glucose in the blood.

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