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FDA approves first automated insulin delivery device for type 1 diabetes
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Medtronic’s MiniMed 670G hybrid closed looped system, the first FDA-approved device that is intended to automatically monitor glucose (sugar) and provide appropriate basal insulin doses in people 14 years of age and older with type 1 diabetes. The human pancreas naturally supplies a low, continuous rate of insulin, known as basal or background insulin. In patients with diabetes, the body’s ability to produce or respond to i
Josh Reynolds for STAT
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How drug startups choose their brand
The intellectual property is secure. The science is sound. You’re about to make your pitch for funding. The scary next step for a biotech entrepreneur? Picking a company name. “It is a very emotionally charged exercise,” said Scott Piergrossi, vice president of creative at the Brand Institute, a Miami-based firm that specializes in pharmaceutical branding. For Kevin Pojasek and his cofounders, the business model was to develop medicine for chronic pain by targeting a molecule
