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MIT Diabetes Device Monitors Glucose With Light

by Frank Barlin on August 10, 2010 in Drug Delivery, Home Healthcare, Lifescience, Medical Devices

At Sibaya we are strong supporters of diabetes research -especially Type 1 (scroll all the way down bottom right). MIT has done some great work in this area and has now come up with a device that can monitor glucose with light, potentially avoiding the several times a day that diabetics need to draw blood. [...]

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Sniffing Device To Drive A Wheelchair And Enable Communication – Weizmann Institute of Science

by Editor on July 28, 2010 in Healthcare Marketing, Home Healthcare, Investors, Lifescience, Press Release

News release: A unique device based on sniffing—inhaling and exhaling through the nose—might enable numerous disabled people to navigate wheelchairs or communicate with their loved ones. Sniffing technology might even be used in the future to create a sort of “third hand” to assist healthy surgeons or pilots.Developed by Prof. Noam Sobel, electronics engineers Dr. [...]

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6th Annual World Health Care Congress – Europe

by Editor on April 26, 2010 in Editorial, Lifescience, Medical Devices, Press Release, linkedin

The 6th Annual World Health Care Congress – Europe is taking place 19-20 May, 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. This annual event is the only major international forum that convenes over 400 leaders from all sectors of health care to share the best practices and successful initiatives for improved delivery and outcomes in Europe. The 2010 [...]

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Reversal Of Aging In Human Stem Cells – Possible Intervention In Age-related Disease

by Editor on March 16, 2010 in Investors, Lifescience, Press Release

PRESS RELEASE FROM FUTURE SCIENCE GROUP March 2010 Reversal of aging shown in human stem cells A team of North American collaborators from both industrial research centers (Biotime Inc, Mandala Biosciences LLC and Sierra Sciences LLC) and academic institutes (Ontario Cancer Institute, Burnham Institute for Medical Research and The Scripps Research Institute) have demonstrated successful [...]

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German Health Minister Philipp Roesler – To Slam Pharma – (Wheelchairs And Homecare Next)?

by Frank Barlin on March 10, 2010 in Editorial, Home Healthcare, Lifescience, Pharmaceutical, linkedin

New German Health Minister Takes Aim At Traditional Pharma Companies. Newly appointed German Healthcare Minister Philipp Roesler – liberal – Free Democratic Party in likely move to break big pharma stronghold and submit new products to insurance pricing scrutiny and impose an “efficiency and clinical effectiveness /outcomes” pricing performance ratio. Not totally dissimilar to the [...]

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