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Glooko Raises $3.5M for Diabetes Logs

Liz Gannes in News on January 30 at 5:01 am PT

Mobile diabetes-management company Glooko has raised $3.5 million more in a Series A round from its impressive list of investors, which include Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social+Capital Partnership, Bill Campbell, Vint Cerf, Judy Estrin and Andy Hertzfeld. The Palo Alto, Calif., company sells a $39.95 cord that connects to blood glucose meters and feeds data to a free iPhone app. The promise of the company is to elevate the geek hobby of quantifying oneself to the next level — health care.

Walt Shows Off CES Gadgets for Fox Business News (Video)

Walt Mossberg in News on January 12 at 12:04 pm PT

The Justin Bieber of CES (or so says Fox Business News) has found a few intriguing items in a show without any real blockbusters.

Diabetic Tester That Talks to iPhones and Doctors

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on January 4 at 6:10 pm PT

Telcare’s new diabetes meter offers built-in wireless technology to transmit readings to an online database.

Massive Health Raises $2.25 Million From Massive List of Investors

Liz Gannes in Social on February 2, 2011 at 9:33 am PT

Massive Health, the new start-up from former Firefox creative lead Aza Raskin, announced this morning it has raised $2.25 million in seed funding.

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The Jewelry Prescription

Laura Landro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 31, 2010 at 11:30 am PT

It’s a simple step, but one many doctors forget to remind patients to take: Wear a medical-alert bracelet. A growing number of American adults and children face complex medical conditions like heart disease and diabetes. They may have drug or food allergies, suffer from disorders like autism, or take medications like the blood thinner coumadin that medical staff should know about in an emergency.

Keas's Adam Bosworth Speaks About New Health Care Start-Up!

Kara Swisher in News on October 7, 2009 at 2:05 pm PT

The former head of Google Health, Adam Bosworth, officially unveiled his much anticipated health-care start-up today at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, showing off a site that will offer step-by-step and personalized “care plans,” as well as many kinds of online tools to better understand the data and tips on how to stay healthy. It’s perfect timing, given the health-care debate now raging in Washington, which is about how people make health-care decisions–or, more precisely, how they usually do not. Here’s a video interview with Bosworth.

MSN Debuts Online Health Service

Kara Swisher in News on October 1, 2009 at 12:20 am PT

MSN, Microsoft’s online portal, released a beta version of a service to let users manage their health information on the Web. Called My Health Info, the Microsoft offering, which includes a range of widgets and other Web tools, wades into an area that many are attempting to crack, including Google.