People using traditional insulin pumps to manage their diabetes often have to adjust their daily lives to live comfortably with a tubed pump. Insulet wants to change that. For nearly three decades, hundreds of thousands of people with diabetes have relied on insulin pumps to titrate the drug that keeps their blood sugar in check. Insulin pumps … [Read more...] about Making diabetes management simpler with a tubeless pump
GE backs Injeq’s smart needle
Injeq, a resident at GE’s Health Innovation Village in Helsinki, created a smart needle that tells the user about surrounding tissue for safer liver biopsies and lumbar punctures. The Finnish company’s device looks like a standard hypodermic needle, but with an electrode attached to the tip. The needle measures changes in signal caused by contact … [Read more...] about GE backs Injeq’s smart needle
