Episodes

  • BioSpine, a game changing QLD-led technology to help recover movement and sensation after paralysis

    BioSpine, a game changing QLD-led technology to help recover movement and sensation after paralysis
    Apr 8 2025
    Description: Like the entire BioSpine team, Claudio Pizzolato lives and breathes his work. And it’s easy to understand why when your aim is to see people with spinal cord injury walk again. Claudio and the team, based at Griffith University Gold Coast, have a variety of engineers and clinicians working alongside industrial designers and game designers are making remarkable progress with trial participants experiencing unanticipated benefits.

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    22 mins
  • Preventative Healthcare: the Next Wave in Removing Barriers to get on top of your Health and Wellness

    Preventative Healthcare: the Next Wave in Removing Barriers to get on top of your Health and Wellness
    Mar 3 2025
    Turning the conversation from reactive to proactive when talking about your health and wellness journey. Order and receive results to your phone and track over months and years to understand your body. A natural entrepreneur, Thor set out to remove the barriers around testing and help give people more ownership of their health. The result - Bloody Good Tests – an award-winning healthtech start up offering a pioneering approach to preventive health.

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    22 mins
  • Eradicate hypothermia: Wearable warming revolutionising the healthcare industry

    Eradicate hypothermia: Wearable warming revolutionising the healthcare industry
    Dec 10 2024
    As a clinician and researcher Professor Nick Ralph was passionate about preventing hypothermia. But it was his own personal experience with the condition that propelled Nick to research and design a solution to eradicate the ‘world’s most common serious adverse event in surgery’. Nick is now the Founder and Director of Thermal Armour and has created warming devices for soldiers injured during combat and for use during hospital surgical procedures. We spoke with Nick about his ground-breaking technologies and his mission to eradicate surgical hypothermia from hospitals across the globe.

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    28 mins
  • Neurodivergence in Children’s Health: What is it, Symptoms, Where to get help.

    Neurodivergence in Children’s Health: What is it, Symptoms, Where to get help.
    Nov 13 2024

    The Child Development Service supports families and children across the Coast. The service has recently moved into a brand new fit-for-purpose location in Lumina, featuring quiet spaces and wall art created by patients, among a number of initiatives, to help their young patients feel more comfortable and engaged during their appointments. We spoke with the Medical Director Dr Francoise Butel about neurodivergence and the new space.

    In this episode, hear about the fascinating stages of early childhood development, covering everything from language acquisition to social-emotional growth. With expert insights and practical tips, it's a must-listen for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to support the next generation.

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    17 mins
  • Cancer diagnostic and treatment has evolved with Cancer Radiology and Therapy (CRT)

    Cancer diagnostic and treatment has evolved with Cancer Radiology and Therapy (CRT)
    Sep 18 2024
    CRT Imaging is Queensland's newest and most sophisticated radiology centre providing general imaging along with specialist cancer radiology and theranostic. In this episode of HealthTech talks, we talk to the expert team behind the brand-new state-of-the-art centre, within Proxima at Lumina Gold Coast, to find out the new technology detecting cancer, what makes it unique and how it supports patients on their cancer journey.

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    20 mins
  • Healthcare from top to toes: Learn what our feet tell us about our health

    Healthcare from top to toes: Learn what our feet tell us about our health
    Aug 14 2024
    Our feet can tell us a lot about our health – just ask Professor James Charles. As a podiatrist, James is passionate about foot health, in particular when it comes to First Nations Peoples. Now as the Director of Griffith University’s First Nations Health Unit, James is focused on the broader health of Indigenous people and, using virtual reality, is helping future generations of health care professionals to understand culture so they can provide more culturally appropriate healthcare. We spoke with James in the lead up to National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners Day.

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    24 mins
  • Technological Advances in Pathology: AI and drones are changing the future of cancer diagnosis

    Technological Advances in Pathology: AI and drones are changing the future of cancer diagnosis
    Aug 6 2024
    As an anatomical pathologist, Dr Admire Matsika spends a great deal of his working day looking through a microscope at placentas, and tissue samples from kidney, bladder and prostate tumours. But in the not too distant future, a microscope might not be part of Dr Matsika’s diagnostic toolbox. We spoke with Dr Matsika about what advances are ahead in the field of anatomical pathology and how this will benefit patients, the health system and pathologists.

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    19 mins
  • Visit the dentist in the comfort of your own home…thanks to AI

    Visit the dentist in the comfort of your own home…thanks to AI
    Jul 15 2024
    If you don’t like going to the dentist, you need to listen to this episode of Healthtech Talks! That’s because we’re talking to dentist and entrepreneur Dr Padma Gadiyar who has developed an app that lets you access dental advice from the comfort of your own home. Among Dr Padma’s vision for her app, is that it improves access to dental care across the globe and helps decrease the number of children with tooth decay.

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    21 mins