A six-month study found that children and teenagers with Type I diabetes who participated in an intensive remote therapy pilot program saw improved blood glucose control compared to those who received traditional care. The study, conducted by UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) and Children’s Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota, was published last month in the journal Pediatric Diabetes. Kids who […]
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Attivo Networks receives validation from BD for BOTsink cybersecurity solution
Attivo Networks recently announced that it has received validation through a BD Product Security Partner Program for its BOTsink cybersecurity deception solution when used with BD devices. The company recently expanded its IOT portfolio and the BD collaboration will allow for improved detection capabilities against cyber threats that impact medical devices. The deception-based threat detection […]
Rebiotix develops tool to measure rehabilitation of microbiome
Rebiotix today unveiled its Microbiome Health Index – a tool it created to establish a standard metric that can be used to quantify how effective a microbiome-based therapy is at rehabilitating the human microbiome. The index, which was developed in partnership with data analytics firm BioRankings, combines four bacterial classes into a unidimensional expression of […]
How the Apple Watch & other wearables could help highlight early signs of diabetes
Researchers have found that using Cardiogram‘s deep neural network technology, data collected from ordinary wearables could help flag early signs of diabetes. In one 14,000-person study, the company’s DeepHeart technology was able to distinguish between people with and without diabetes at 85% accuracy. Investigators from Cardiogram and the University of California San Francisco presented the […]
One Drop partners with Fitbit to bring diabetes data to people’s wrists
One Drop announced yesterday that it landed a multi-part collaboration with Fitbit (NYSE:FIT). The group’s first initiative will be to integrate Fitbit’s data onto One Drop’s mobile app for diabetes management, the company said, in the hopes to helping One Drop users better understand how physical activity impacts blood glucose management. The data from Fitbit will […]
The 10 largest medical device companies in the world
Mergers & acquisitions continue to change the medical device landscape, as reflected in Medical Design & Outsourcing’s new Big 100 list. We pulled financial regulatory filings and reached out to major companies in some cases to create a list of the 100 largest medical device companies in the world, ranked by annual revenue for their […]
10 of the world’s largest medical device companies
When it comes to the largest medical device companies, it’s a changing cast of players – as demonstrated once again in Medical Design & Outsourcing’s latest Big 100 list. We pulled financial regulatory filings and reached out major companies to create a list of the 100 largest medical device companies in the world, ranked by […]
One Drop touts effects of diabetes management mobile app
One Drop touted data today from a retrospective study of people with Type I and Type II diabetes using its mobile diabetes management app. The data, which were published yesterday in JMIR Diabetes, showed that people using the One Drop mobile app had a 1.1% to 1.3% absolute reduction in A1C in 4 months. The app […]
Study: Opioid-related deaths overwhelming intensive care units
Intensive care units in hospitals have seen a sharp increase in the number of opioid-related admissions and deaths since 2009, according to a study by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the demand for care relating to opioids has overwhelmed the available supply. The team touted their study, which was published today in […]
Prolonging the lives & independence of Alzheimer’s patients with artificial intelligence
With modern medicine and public health measures extending the average person’s life expectancy, a growing population is coming face to face with the challenges of age – including cognitive decline. Addressing the needs of people dealing with cognitive change is no simple task. And today’s healthcare workers are hungry for objective, meaningful data to help […]