You heard of Medingo, right? The Israeli start-up company whose new patch pump technology was recently acquired by Accu-Chek/Roche Diabetes?
Well, there’s another Israeli start-up that’s presumably hoping to beat a similar path. The company is called NiliMedix, based in the country’s Haifa District. They’re developing both “advanced insulin pump technology” — a supposedly smaller, lighter and more sophisticated pump than any on the market today — and also “innovative measures for the most accurate…
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By
AmyT on
March 31, 2010
Russian-born Michael Ostrovsky is a board certified anesthesiologist, practicing cardiac anesthesia here in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s one of the few MDs who’s not only extremely web-savvy, but is actually part of the Health 2.0 and Social Media movement as co-founder of Medgadget.com, sort of the “Engadget” of the medical technology world. Lucky for us, he’s also a fixture in the DiabetesMine Design Challenge competition.
Want to know what’s new with medical innovations?…
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AmyT on
March 12, 2009
I see that we need a little clarification here: we’ve been getting some queries from folks with great diabetes design ideas, who are a bit hesitant to enter the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge contest for fear of giving up the rights to their intellectual property. No worries! Here’s what you need to know:
You (the contest participant) retain the full IP rights to your idea. We (the contest organizers) don’t take ownership of anything. The…
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Thank you, creative entrants! It’s been a long week of deliberating over the 21 submissions we had for the 2nd Annual DiabetesMine™ Design Challenge, including participants from Canada, Iran, and the Philippines (!)
If you recall, this competition is generously sponsored by Cory and Justin Oringer, two young brothers (ages 14 and 11, respectively) who have both been living with Type 1 diabetes for more than 10 years each, and are huge enthusiasts for design…
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All the entries are in for this year’s exciting
DiabetesMine™ Design Challenge
* a competition designed to foster innovation in diabetes design and encourage creative new tools that will improve life with diabetes *
CLICK HERE to review all the details on this competition.
Winners will be chosen this week and announced on Friday, June 20. Here’s your part in all this, Dear Reader:
As noted, winners will be evaluated by a sort of reverse…
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