POSTS TAGGED AS diabetes

Ocular Glucose Measurement

Saying that “the eye can be thought of as an optical window into the body for the painless measurement [MORE]

Ear-Implanted Microbeads to Monitor Blood Glucose

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Life Bio Electromechanical Autonomous Nano Systems Center recently reported in [MORE]

Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Business Forecast

Medical market watcher Kalorama Information (NYC) notes the astonishing growth of continuous blood glucose monitoring systems (i.e. insulin pump [MORE]

Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring, for Pets

The novelty of this story is that a researcher at the University of Missouri’s College of Veterinary Medicine [MORE]

Implanted Wireless Sensor for Glucose Monitoring

GlySens (San Diego, CA) is testing an implanted glucose monitor that detects and measures glucose in tissue by an [MORE]

Predicting Diabetes

Starting from samples in blood biorepositories, where diabetes outcomes were tracked over time and known, scientists at Tethys Bioscience [MORE]

Predicting Metabolic Syndrome in the First Decade of Life

Professor of Public Health at the LSU Health Sciences Center (New Orleans), Melinda Sothern, recently reported her findings that [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]

Predictive Algorithms with Medtronics’ Insulin Pump

Medtronic has a “MiniLink” transmitter that can send blood glucose readings to its insulin pump which has predictive alerts-giving the [MORE]

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]

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]