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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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