Top 10 Digital Health Mergers And Acquisitions Show Trends For 2019
In 2018, the digital health market saw just as a turbulent year as before – if not even more volatile and unpredictable. MobiHealthNews saw a record-breaking 56 acquisitions and mergers in the space, 13 of which had disclosed price tags totaling $7.6 billion. While the market space relentlessly expands, some trends show the maturing of the scene: growth is mainly due to the slow awakening of huge traditional healthcare/pharma companies or agile tech giants, while small startups have less chance to survive on their own. Let’s see the most important digital health mergers and acquisitions of last year!
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Source: The Medical Futurist - January 8, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Business Future of Medicine AI amazon artificial intelligence companies diabetes digital health digital health companies Fitbit Healthcare healthcare market mergers transportation Source Type: blogs
Medgadget ’s Best Medical Technologies of 2018
The year 2018 is nearly over, and it is time for us to reveal what we believe were the most notable developments in medical technology. We considered a technology’s clinical importance, the greatness of the leap that it’s making over existing solutions, as well as how we expect it to be adopted by doctors and nurses. Additionally, we place great value on the novelty, the engineering brilliance embedded within, and how a new technology makes possible what recently seemed nearly inconceivable. As such, a technology that may not be the most useful, but if it strikes our imagination and opens up new possibilities i...
Source: Medgadget - December 28, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Medicine Society Surgery Source Type: blogs
Reduce HIGH TRIGLYCERIDES naturally and safely . . . without scam products
High triglyceride levels are as common as muffin tops and man breasts. You will find a triglyceride level among the four values on any standard cholesterol panel. High triglycerides are either ignored by most doctors or reflexively “treated” with drugs, such as fibrates (Lopid, fenofibrate), prescription fish oil (Lovaza, Vascepa) and, of course, statins. But buried in this single triglyceride value is tremendous insight into diet, metabolic efficiencies, and cardiovascular risk, with control using natural, non-medication means easy to accomplish with absolute NO need for overpriced Big Pharma scam products.
Why are ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 28, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates grain-free triglycerides undoctored Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 24th 2018
In conclusion, we found a gradient of increasing blood pressure with higher levels of BMI. The fact that this gradient is present even in the fully adjusted analyses suggests that BMI may cause a direct effect on blood pressure, independent of other clinical risk factors.
PRRX1 as a Possible Point of Control for Remyelination
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/12/prrx1-as-a-possible-point-of-control-for-remyelination/
Researchers here outline what is possibly a new point of intervention in the processes that maintain the myelin sheath that wraps nerves. This sheath is vital to the correct operati...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 23, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Growth Signaling and Aging in Mammals
While the causes of aging are comparatively well mapped, supported by a great deal of solid evidence, the field more than ready for the development of rejuvenation therapies to begin in earnest, the biochemical details of the progression of aging remains a vast and poorly explored forest. This is also true of cellular metabolism as a whole: to fully understand aging, one must fully understand the inner workings of the cell to the finest level of detail. The research community is a lifetime removed from that goal, even taking into account a rapid pace of future progress in the capabilities of biotechnology.
Still, so...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 21, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Don ’ t toy with glycemic index
Here is a discussion I first posted in my Wheat Belly Total Health book, chapter 7: Grainless Living Day-to-Day.
Glycemic index, or GI, describes how high blood sugar climbs over 90 minutes after consuming a food compared to glucose.
The GI of a chicken drumstick? Zero: No impact on blood sugar. How about three fried eggs? Zero, too. This is true for other meats, oils and fats, seeds, mushrooms, and non-starchy vegetables. You eat any of these foods and blood sugar doesn’t budge, no glycation phenomena follow, no glucotoxic or lipotoxic damage to such things as your pancreas.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with th...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 14, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates blood sugar gi gluten-free glycemic grain-free grains Inflammation insulin low-carb Source Type: blogs
Top Digital Health Stories of 2018: From Amazon And Google To Gene-Edited Babies
Instead of mind-boggling inventions, 2018 was the year when national governments, as well as healthcare regulators, started to embrace digital health technologies at scale. The year when Google, Amazon, Apple or Microsoft competed head-to-head for the biggest chunks on the healthcare market, and when the buzzword of the year award went to the blockchain. Here’s our guide to the top digital health stories from last year.
2018: Under the spell of cosmos and microcosmos
Every year, The Medical Futurist team sits down and collects the top stories of the past 12 months in healthcare. We put the novelties under the microscope,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 11, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Business Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers Researchers Top Lists 2018 AI artificial intelligence artificial pancreas blockchain chatbot CRISPR deep learning diabetes digital health digital he Source Type: blogs
How the Opioid Epidemic Affects Chronic Pain Patients
“It is borderline genocide,” said DeLuca, 37. “You are allowing [chronic pain patients] to go home and essentially suffer until they kill themselves.”
Last year, Lauren DeLuca went to the emergency room in the middle of the night, violently ill and in pain with a pancreatic attack. Despite the fact that she was passing out and vomiting profusely, DeLuca said that she received little help.
“I was essentially turned away,” she told The Fix. “Everywhere [I went] I was being accused of lying, accused of making it up.”
Over the next three weeks, DeLuca lost 20 pounds, unable to eat because of her pain and vomiti...
Source: World of Psychology - December 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Disorders Health-related Medications Publishers Substance Abuse The Fix Chronic Pain opioid addiction Opioids Source Type: blogs
Safe and effective use of insulin requires proper storage
Insulin is a naturally occurring, glucose-lowering hormone used by many people with diabetes to control their blood sugar. In people with type 1 diabetes, supplemental insulin makes up for the insulin that is not produced by the body. People with type 2 diabetes may need to take insulin if they cannot maintain adequate blood sugar control with other medications.
Insulin is manufactured to be identical to the insulin produced by the human pancreas. These synthetic insulins can work from a few hours (rapid-acting insulin) to a whole day (long-acting insulin). They are typically injected via a needle or pen.
Guidelines for pr...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elena Toschi, MD Tags: Diabetes Drugs and Supplements Health Source Type: blogs
Food TASTES better on the Wheat Belly lifestyle
“Almonds are sweet.”
“Foods taste better.”
“Candy now tastes sickeningly sweet.”
“My daughter now loves asparagus.”
I’ve heard these comments from Wheat Belly lifestyle followers numerous times over the years, observations that reflect the change in taste perception that develops with wheat and grain elimination from the diet.
It is a consistent effect observed by so many people: the perception of taste changes with elimination of wheat and grains. It represents restoration of taste perception back to the way it was supposed to have been all along, an effect that reflects healing of the gastrointes...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 25, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gastrointestinal gluten gluten-free grain-free grains taste wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Can Money Buy You Longevity And Health?
Better treatment options, dietary conditions and (perhaps) less stress could make the life of the rich also healthier. However, when it comes to longevity and aging, do they really have better chances? Can the upper 0.1 percent secure their health for long decades or even reverse the process of growing old? Could society somehow also benefit from the quest of the richest for longevity?
Are health and longevity on the shopping list?
You can have an awful lot of things with money. For a starter, you can buy ice cream or Nutella, which are synonymous to self-love, so the Beatles was only partly right in singing that you can...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Cyborgization Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers age aging aging research blood eternal life genetics immortality Innovation life sciences longevity silicon valley stem cell Source Type: blogs
DBLG1, a Glucose Management System, Cleared in Europe
Diabeloop, a company based in Grenoble, France, won the European CE Mark of approval for its DBLG1 blood sugar management system for type 1 diabetics.
The system combines data gathered from a continuous blood glucose monitor and smart algorithms to drive the activation of an insulin pump. The system can predict glucose levels based on its continuous learning capability that adjusts to each individual patient.
It’s essentially the brains of a closed-loop system that replicates the functionality of a pancreas.
“We are proud to have passed the regulatory step of the CE marking. Our commercial deployment will be gradua...
Source: Medgadget - November 19, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
