Comments on: The Non-Invasive Glucose Monitor No One Wanted (?)

By: sue andaloro

sue andaloro — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:06:50 +0000

Count me in. I know a lot of diabetics that would like to participate and will pay the money. And i’d like to help on the marketing end too. I’m looking for more products to sell that get people off pharmaceuticals and all that stuff.

By: browncoat

browncoat — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:48:08 +0000

how about releasing the data and technology so far into the public domain or publishing it under an open source type license? i know this man has worked hard and deserves a reward, but if he is a father like the article says he must know how pressing the issue is and how much a device like that would be needed.thousands of hobby shops could make it,and 10′s of thousands cloud test it at their own risk (which would be minimal as they would have to more intensively use strips in the early phases for claibration).if it works he will go down in history for changing the speed and methodology of introducing potentially lifesaving technology to an inflexible and possibly otherwise motivated(there is money to be made in strips) market,if not he at least will get kudos for trying.

By: david

david — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:41:50 +0000

Lary,
i am from israel and ready to invest please contact me.

By: Paula

Paula — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:20:20 +0000

Would someone please invent a machine that alerts some one in the family when having a low sugar reaction, especially in the early morning after sleeping.
Thanks,
Linda

By: Dr Ali Abd

Dr Ali Abd — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:06:50 +0000

I am a physician and clinical researcher based in the UK.
Currently I am working with other partner to evaluate and carrying out clinical trials on non-invasive methods to measure and monitor blood glucose, we have a support from both the pharmaceutical and technology companies.
I would appreciate it if you could kindly get in touch to discuss your idea and explore the possibility of further collaboration.
Thank you
Kind regards
–
Yours faithfully
Dr Ali Abd
PhD Research Follow
1009 Level C
Royal Alexandra Hospital
Eastern Road
BN2 5BE

By: M Tindall

M Tindall — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:19:27 +0000

Larry,

Please contact me. We have the resources to get you moving but we’d like to learn more.

By: Simkin

Simkin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:26:39 +0000

Please, I would love to voluinteer, and of course pay the cost for the prototype &c.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:34:28 +0000

The pharmacy industry is using Diabetes as a cash cow. We are the herd of cows they are farming. At a dollar a strip(can be done for a lot less), why would they welcome a device as described?
I am convinced if anyone came up with a real cure for Diabetes I or II they would be in danger of losing their life to this industry. At the very least, a Doctor would be in danger of losing the license to practice medicine.
We are not alone. If someone found a real cure for Cancer I feel they would suffer a similar fate.
History has shown Polio would never have been eliminated if it hadn’t been discovered in Russia that a shot was possible to protect us against it.
The only way for this technology to advance is if it can be produced in a country without the financial predators in the Pharmacy Industry. I do not know where that would be. Possibly China or Russia might do it. But I doubt it.
This is not cynic. It is blatant. The people producing the sticks have so much money they really do not care whether anyone knows or not that they are protecting their investment in sticks vs newer technology that will not produce as much revenue.
The answer to type II is somehow undoing the trigger that closes the cell’s use of insulin down. I think part of the key is weight control. Some of the key has to be exercise. I think the danger is opening it up without changing the actual cause of the “disease”. The disease is caused by our very own bodies trying to protect us from an overabundance of glucose in our system. By closing the receptors down, it keeps us from poisoning our cells, thus causing them to react and die. So we have a double-edged sword here. If you “cure” the disease, you die. The trick is to return us to a pre-diabetic state by eliminating the basic cause of why we have gone into a type II situation. Somewhere along the way, restoring the pancreas to function normally. I suggest that anyone that even attempts this is in real danger from the FDA and the drug industry it supports. The sticks are only the tip of the iceberg. In a free economy, a cure would have been found years ago. The government and the branch FDA are not interested in curing us of anything. They are all about keeping the status quo and the money flowing to the drug companies. The free enterprise system would have toppled this monopoly on health care years ago if that were not so.

By: mcityrk

mcityrk — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:09:29 +0000

1- This seems like the type of research that is routinely funded by the NIH SBIR Grant program. Amounts range from 100k in Phase I for 6 months to 250K per year over two tears for phase II. How have they fared in writing grants for this technology to this funding source? Was the initial data good enough to receive a grant score high enough to be initially funded? If they have not tried to write grants here, why not? That was how the research for one company’s implantable glucose sensor [Dexcom] was brought up from seedling technology at a small company in Madison Wi [Markwell Medical Institute] to become sufficiently promising that VCs picked up on it, started Dexcom, and moved it through to final product development.

2- Just because this is a single device with long-lifetime [assuming all claims presented here turn out to always be accurate] does not mean a workable revenue model is missing. Since data is processed and must be output to the user, an on/off cell phone model where say a monthly rent is charged to turn the device on could provide a revenue stream comparable to [or even more favorable than] that generated by the current strip model.

3- If this device is so good, why aren’t insulin pump companies which need a high quality sensor to close the loop jumping all over this technology? The amounts of money discussed here [under a million dollars or so] would be pocket change for Medtronic and not particularly prohibitive for even a smaller company like Insulet. The cynic in me tends to believe if they are not picking up on this, then they must see performance problems that have not been adequately addressed to this point in time.

By: olga

olga — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:12:38 +0000

larry – i think your issue is one i’ve seen before: great brain and humanitarian heart runs up against greed (“business interests”).

count me in as another volunteer, whenever you get there.

and isn’t this the perfect opportunity for social networking to do something other than let people know what your cat just did? how about a facebook fan site (or smth similar) where people can connect, get other people connected, until there’s enough of us to push this thing into testing and then reality. ??????
- olga owens, seattle (warsawgirl @ yahoo.com)