By AmyT on January 19, 2010
Last week, I spent a little bit of time at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, a nearly-thirty-year-old annual gathering that’s become “the health care industry’s premier financial event, giving more than 330 companies a chance to make formal pitches to institutional investors.” Due to a houseful of sickies at home, I wasn’t able to attend as many presentations as I’d have liked, but I did catch a few of the “biggies,” including the talk by…
By AmyT on December 22, 2009
Last week I learned of yet another company, Echo Therapuetics out of the Boston area, that is developing a transdermal continuous glucose monitoring system for people with diabetes. Naturally that means a non-invasive monitor that takes constant readings through your skin.
Been there. Heard that. Right?
Well, allow me to briefly introduce their work before we get into the discussion about whether skin-surface monitoring will ever succeed.
Echo’s Symphony system is made up of four…
By AmyT on August 21, 2009
Greetings Dear Readers,
We landed in SFO yesterday after a wonderfully smooth 10-hour flight from Dublin on Aer Lingus. When I say “smooth” I mean no one broke out in tears, kicked the neighboring passengers, or spilled their juice on the seats. Not even the kids
To summarize our vacation very briefly, we spent long hours with the family, browsing the shops in my husband’s home village, drinking latte macchiatos, and watching the cousins enjoy…
By AmyT on April 21, 2009
Welcome Guests! Thanks for joining me on this fine day for the Grand Rounds host Birthday Edition, Vol. 5, No. 31 — where the best of this week’s medical and health blogging comes to party.
And now straight to the festivities, where you’ll find some delightful surprises in store:
SWEETS
Birthday cake, anyone? Alison Finney, a fellow diabetic and author of Shoot Up or Put Up, shares my April 21 birthday! (also with…
By AmyT on February 23, 2009
Get ready for a post with a lot of fancy science words. It can’t be helped. That’s because if you’re going to use pig cells to potentially cure type 1 diabetes, you need a LOT of science.
MicroIslet Inc. is a biotech firm based in San Diego, CA, that ironically declared bankruptcy last year, but is pulling itself up by the bootstraps to realize its transplantation therapy dream. It is now gearing up to launch…
