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Diabetes Notes

Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category

October 9th, 2006

Becton Dickinson dropping out of glucose monitoring market

Citing an increasingly competitive market, medical device producer Becton Dickinson & Co. announced that it will stop production of its blood glucose monitoring products for diabetics.
“We have concluded that our future outlook in an increasingly competitive market does not justify the levels of investment and additional resources necessary to continue,” said Chief Executive Edward J. […]

By Rob Rummel-Hudson -- 1 comment

May 15th, 2006

New England company honored for diabetes innovation

A Massachusetts company has been honored with the 2006 New England Innovation Award for its work in developing a state-of-the-art insulin delivery system.
The Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE) chose the Insulet Corporation from among 172 nominees for its development and manufacture of the OmniPod Insulin Management System, a device that combines compact, lightweight […]

By Rob Rummel-Hudson -- 2 comments

August 29th, 2005

Use of mobile phones to control diabetes

This is a perfect example of use of technology in healthcare.  The t+ diabetes system transmits readings taken on blood sugar meters linked to a mobile phone by Bluetooth and a brief "patient diary" entered into the handset’s keypad to a central computer.  This system has been developed by e-San, a company based out of […]

By Maruthi -- 0 comments