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Diabetes: Bay Area companies fighting epidemic
Submitted on:
03.17.2008
Diabetes has become a global health crisis, afflicting 246 million people and costing this country well over $100 billion annually, by one estimate, and prompting a major push by biomedical companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to combat it. Bringing new treatments and devices to market takes time and a lot of money for research and development. Currently, diabetics have to use bulky, hard-to-use blood-sugar monitors. San Francisco design firm Adaptive Path is working on a prototype for a tiny, combined insulin pump and blood-sugar monitor. CHI member company
Nektar Therapeutics of San Carlos is designing improved versions of Exubra
its, its unprecedented inhaled-insulin product.
Click here to read more about other developments in diabetes treatments and devices in the Mercury News.
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