Tag Archives: Diabetes management

Google Partners with DexCom to Create a Miniature Glucose Monitor

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A drop of blood. A strip and a meter that reads the blood glucose levels. That is the normal routine for so many in the United States. 10% of Americans, that is 21.9 million people, have diabetes....

CVS and IBM Want Watson to Predict Your Health

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CVS and IBM have joined hands. The tech giant company IBM will allow the use of its super computer Watson by the pharmacy giant CVS. CVS will use Watson to determine chronic health problems.The...

Apple Watch App monitors Glucose Levels for Diabetics

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DexCom has built an app that can work in conjunction with an Apple Watch and show glucose readings of diabetics thereby saving the day for those afflicted with the disease. This of course lends the...

African American women working night shift at risk for Type 2 diabetes

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Diabetes is serious illness for many Americans. The CDC estimates that 1 in 11 people have either Type 1 or Type 2 and 1 in 4 are entirely unaware. Studies show that 1 in 3 million people, or 86...

Type 2 Diabetes Cure Found

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Medical research scientists have literally stumbled upon a rare genetic mutation which switches off the mechanisms responsible for type 2 diabetes. The threat of the devastating disease is cut by two...

Diabetes or No Diabetes? Check it via Contact Lenses

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With the refined diet and packaged unnatural foods of today’s supermarket culture, diabetes is a menace. It plagues about one out of every 20 people on the planet. Like its twin disease of obesity,...

Diabetes Risk can be Minimized

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Diabetes is a sickness that affects almost all organs and systems of the body. It has ravaged lives via its degenerative symptoms. Once the presence of glucose in the blood becomes commonplace, a...

Contact Lenses to Measure Glucose Levels

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With the refined diet and packaged unnatural foods of today’s supermarket culture, diabetes is a menace. It plagues about one out of every 20 people on the planet. Like its twin disease of obesity,...

WellDoc Raises $20 Million To Market First Mobile Prescription For Diabetes Management

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WellDoc, which sells a type 2 diabetes interactive management program on a mobile device, raised $20 million from Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and Windham Venture Partners. “Big pharma is...