Posted in Mobile Health by Chris Newmarker on January 30, 2015 Why would two women who visit the doctor with identical early symptoms of multiple sclerosis have vastly different outcomes 10 years later? That’s what pharmaceutical ...
Posted in Mobile Health by Nancy Crotti on January 7, 2015 A little more than a year ago, a top executive of Qualcomm Life predicted that smartphones would one day be considered medical devices. Qualcomm's 2Net Hub is a ...
Tags: smartphones, medical devices, Health
Swiss u-blox has revealed that that its Cat. 4 TOBY-L200 4G LTE module has achieved "network compatible" status for North Americas largest LTE network. In the u-blox tradition of miniaturization and reliability, TOBY-L200 is the world's ...
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Posted in Medical Device Business by Brian Buntz on November 18, 2014 Irvine, CA–based Allergan has been adamant in fighting off a hostile takeover attempt from Valeant Pharmaceuticals International for the past seven months. But ...
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Microsoft has joined the wearable health-monitoring fray with its new “Microsoft Band,” a wrist-worn device that will allow users to monitor their fitness and exercise regimens. The Microsoft Band, as shown on the company's ...
The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation's Connections for Cardiovascular HealthSM program today announced it will award nearly $3.7 million in grants to 19 nonprofit organizations dedicated to improving cardiovascular health in local ...
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Add AT&T to the list of high tech companies seeking to increase their visibility in the medical device industry: The Dallas–based telecommunications giant has appointed digital health notable Eric Topol, MD, as its new chief medical ...
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US-based AliveCor has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to sell its AliveCor heart monitor without prescription, previously available by prescription only. It is claimed to be the only FDA cleared mobile ECG ...
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced its sponsorship of an educational program series called the "Mobile Medical Apps (MMA) Roadshow: Managing App Development under FDA Regulation." CEA is joining a consortium of six ...
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A "misfire" is the way Eric Topol, MD, describes 23andMe's recent regulatory tussle with the FDA, which resulted in the Silicon Valley-based company halting sales for now of its health-related genetic test analysis. Speaking with MPMN ...
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Brightest Flashlight Free in an Android app that performs a simple function: It allows an Android phone user to turn on the LED light on the back of his or her phone. Since this LED light is designed for use with a camera, many Android ...
Mobile cardiovascular health firm AliveCor (San Francisco, CA) has announced the debut of AliveInsights, a new service that enables patients to send ECG data generated by the company's heart monitors to cardiologists or cardiac technicians ...
Tags: ECG, Heart Monitors, Smartphone
OrSense, a developer of solutions for non-invasive measurements of various blood parameters, announced that it has received the US Food and Drug Administration clearance for its NBM-200MP, noninvasive hemoglobin (Hb) and pulse oximetry ...
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LabStyle Innovations, the developer of Dario, has announced the official European launch date for the Dario iOS mobile application. Dario is a cloud-based, mobile health (mHealth) platform for diabetes and related blood glucose ...
US-based iHealth Lab has announced that its portable Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose monitor system is now available for sale at select stores. According to the company, users can regularly monitor their blood glucose levels by using the ...
Tags: Blood Glucose, Medicine