Got opinions about current diabetes devices & treatments and how they could be improved? Of course you do!
There are just twelve days left to enter our epic Diabetes Patient Voices Contest — a one-of-kind opportunity for 10* well-spoken patient advocates to meet with decision-makers in Pharma, technology, design, health gaming and other relevant fields to talk about what works for us and what doesn’t. Who knows better than we, the patients, what we need…
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AmyT on
January 4, 2012
This morning, Medtronic Diabetes announced FDA approval and U.S. market launch of its long-awaited mySentry Remote Glucose Monitor, which allows a parent or caregiver to monitor from another room a patient’s MiniMed Paradigm REAL-Time Revel System. mySentry was considered “mythical” of late by many observers, since rumors of it have circulated for at least four years.
mySentry is a desktop, or nightstand, monitor, that displays real-time data from a CGM sensor that a PWD is…
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AmyT on
December 21, 2010
Dr. Josh Makower is Co-founder of Stanford’s Biodesign Innovation Program, and a Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University Medical School. He’s also Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ExploraMed, a medical device incubator. And he’s a Venture Partner with New Enterprise Associates, where he supports the investing activity in new medical devices.
In short, Dr. Makower is a world authority on med-tech innovation. I bumped into him while beginning preparations for the…
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