POSTS TAGGED AS diabetes

Artificial Pancreas for Nocturnal Hypoglycemia in T1 Diabetes

An artificial pancreas is a closed loop device that delivers both insulin and glucagon and can be particularly advantageous [MORE]

Automated Eye Scan for Diabetes-Related Lesions

University of Iowa researchers have tested two computerized image analyzer programs and found both comparable for accuracy to expert [MORE]

Low-Tech Solutions for the Chronically Ill

Anand K. Iyer, Ph.D., President and COO, WellDoc Communications, Inc. describes what he sees as the number one challenge in [MORE]

Iyer Sees Wireless Technology As Solution to Big Healthcare Challenges

Anand Iyer, PhD, President and COO,  WellDoc Communications,  describes what he see as the number one challenge in healthcare today [MORE]

Bihormonal Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas

The April 14th issue of Science Translational Medicine has a research article describing how bioengineers at Boston University and [MORE]

Home Monitoring for Physician Efficiency

From a study of 250 patients with diabetes, heart failure, and hypertension, the Cleveland Clinic determined that home monitoring (using [MORE]

Alzheimer’s and Down’s Syndrome: The Same Disease?

Researchers found a link-amyloid beta damage-between Down’s Syndrome and Alzheimer’s two decades ago, but now it appears that the [MORE]

Glucometer Phone

In a study Partners Healthcare (Boston) sponsored, more than two-thirds of parents with a diabetic child said they would be [MORE]

Computer Modeling of Cancer Pathways

Relying on genomic profiling data, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, and nearby Scottsdale Health, have discovered [MORE]

What you think is the #1 challenge in healthcare today? What medical technology can help to meet those challenges?

With the current raging debate about the American healthcare system, we are hearing  conflicting, sometimes contentious, and frequently emotional viewpoints. [MORE]

Telemedicine Trial for Diabetes Showed No Cost Benefit

In 2000, Medicare commissioned a study of telemedicine services for type 2 diabetics, and the results that were reported this [MORE]

Telemonitoring Diabetes

Microsoft and the University of Miami are running a 25 patient pilot to see if distance monitoring (by computer and [MORE]

Lilly’s Free Phenotypic Drug Discovery Offer

“Lilly will provide no-cost access to phenotypic assay panel for external investigators.”  Using parallel synthesis, a single investigator can generate [MORE]

Spit Test for Type 2 Diabetes

Srinivasa Nagulia, MD,  president and CEO of Diabetomics LLC (Beaverton, OR) has developed a proteomic test, based on 65 markers [MORE]

Glowing Skin

Using a material of 120-nm polymer beads containing a fluorescent dye and glucose specific sensing molecules, Heather Clark, at the [MORE]

Sleep, Diabetes and Obesity

A group of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Bariatric Surgery Clinic have reported finding a link between [MORE]

Non-invasive Glucose Monitoring

Solianis Monitoring AG (Zurich, Switzerland) has recently completed a study of its wearable, noninvasive, multisensor glucose monitor that tracks blood [MORE]

Chronic Disease Management and Wireless Solutions: Transforming Outcomes. Slashing Costs

With alarming increases in both the incidence and costs of chronic disease management, traditional healthcare innovation has all but failed. [MORE]

Artificial Pancreas

Roman Hovorka, head of the Diabetes Modeling Group at Cambridge University is within striking distance of creating a commercially available [MORE]