Official announcement Tuesday morning US Eastern Time of what we picked up from VentureFizz and SecuringPharma back on 14 Mar:  Sproxil’s now-disclosed investor is Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund focusing on poverty in South Asia and East Africa. Their $1.8 million investment in Sproxil… Read moreSproxil gains $1.8 million in new funding

If the announced acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T, to create the largest mobile company in the US, does go through (regulatory approval may take a year), what is the impact on mobile health development? At first glance, not much to… Read moreAT&T/T-Mobile–the impact on mobile health?

Humana Cares, the St. Petersburg, Florida-based chronic care management division of Humana health plans, announced a pilot of Care Innovations’ Intel Health Guide to provide vital signs monitoring and nurse-to-patient video conferencing for congestive heart failure patients. It’s a projected ‘large N’… Read moreHumana Cares 'big pilots' Intel Health Guide (US)

We haven’t had a ‘lab on a chip’ item in a while, since our STD tester in November. Published in the eponymous Lab on a Chip (Royal Society of Chemistry), this latest study is of one dubbed SIMBAS–Self-powered Integrated Microfluidic Blood… Read moreBlood analysis in minutes, via chip

David Doherty demo’d the GE V Scan handheld ultrasound last week at the recent Healthcare Innovation Expo in London. Despite his initial skepticism since its debut in February 2010, he’s come around to seeing its virtues. Ed. Donna is surprised… Read moreGE V Scan handheld ultrasound: review