Medical Innovations

Researchers at Children’s Hospital in Boston have reported in the online edition of Diabetes that they have identified the specific molecular pathway involved in triggering the autoimmune response at the root of type 1 diabetes.[read more]

Molecular, genomic diagnostic lab (photo: dancentury)

Using DNA sequencing to help doctors and pharmaceutical companies personalize treatments for disease has netted a South Carolina startup a small seed round of capital: according to a recent SEC filing, Selah Genomics has raised at least $300,000 and could raise another $600,000 more.[read more]

This company has a tempting and comforting value proposition for new parents: around-the-clock baby monitoring without so much sleep deprivation. Sensible Baby, a new start-up, is hoping its high-tech onesie can calm some parents’ anxiety stemming from sudden infant death syndrome.[read more]

Medicare telehealth

Telehealth is becoming more prevalent and almost a staple in administering healthcare. Great strides are being made to increase reimbursement payments and provide consistency among payers (Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance). But we have a long way to go.[read more]

Health Start-Ups!

The mobile health company that developed the first FDA-cleared ultrasound imaging system that works on a smartphone is looking to boost its uptake with a $4.2 million Series A. Mobisante announced the first closing of Series A financing from WRF Capital, including members of the Alliance of Angels.[read more]

Siemens Healthcare saved its best for first, announcing the firm’s presence at the 2013 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) in Vancouver, Canada with two significant imaging innovations that have been in the works for nearly a decade.[read more]

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Botulinum toxin, or “Botox“, has been used for quite some time as a cosmetic aid in physicians and dentists offices. It can be utilized to make us look and feel younger. Did you know that botox has many other medical uses? It turns out that botox can be used to aid in therapy for many dental, facial pain disorders.[read more]

Health start-up: Lift Labs

San Francisco digital health accelerator Rock Health is kicking off its fifth program next week, and it has some unique startups in the mix. Bound to be the most talked about is Augmedix, which is developing a healthcare app for Google Glass, and has already raised $55,000 from 32 Upstart backers.[read more]

If your invention aims to innovate Healthcare, never forget to prove the three main points in your marketing message whenever you're talking to investors or potential buyers: clinical value, emotional value, and business value.[read more]

Blood pressure tool

According to the CDC, 67 million American adults have high blood pressure. High blood pressure increases the risk of heart disease, chronic heart failure, and kidney disease. Many are able to treat it with medications; others through diet. Now they can add communicating online to that mix.[read more]

Health toys?

Currently medical devices are very expensive for a variety of reasons: research and development, patent licenses, marketing cost, government regulations and more. Now, what may be a new and disruptive technology in healthcare is being studied and developed at the MIT Little Devices Laboratory.[read more]

The Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize is a $10 million global competition developed to incentivize healthcare technology innovation. The goal is to develop a hand-held device that would allow a consumer to access the state of their own health anytime, anywhere. The device will be able to capture key health metrics and diagnose a set of 15 diseases.[read more]