See TOUCH-VOICE We are so impressed that med tech apps are moving forward for specific needs. This is a truly heartwarming and utilitarian one we want to share with you. Counting calories and watching heart rate is fine, but…
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Update: It’s 2 years into the Apple Watch now. Research Kit has been collecting data and an update is expected soon. It’s interesting to read this from the perspective of today…. and know that Tim Cook is dedicated to…
Get your DNA read at 23andme (when the FDA unchains them) and then find out how broken it is and fix it with Exogen’s great new citizen scientist kit on how broken your DNA is. This is one of the…
UPDATE, July 16, 2014 I am so behind on Theranos stories but have to comment on today’s Palo Alto paper’s comparison of Elizabeth Holmes to Mark Zuckerberg. I say NO! Compare her to no one! Give her credit for…
Theranos has a clever sign. Nice. I like it. It is sitting in front of its new home, under construction on Page Mill Rd in Palo Alto. It’s a large campus. Very large. Biggest start up building I have…
Two issues here. 23andme’s marketing strategy changed dramatically in the recent past. It became “in your face” in a retail consumer manner, morphing quickly from a more subtle place. Genetic testing was more mainstream now than even a year…
UPDATE: March 17, 2019 – This is an old post on Theranos. I began writing about Elizabeth Holmes in 2013. This is the first. Start here. An Almost Great Palo Alto Start Up To see all the posts…
Theranos opens in Maryland, and 23andme is still chatting with the left in last century organization , FDA, which is always busy with its special interest groups. (United Healthcare on speed dial?) See our first post on Theranos –…
A recap of the past day: 23andme has stopped including the health reports section of the test because apparently people are not smart enough to understand the results as presented: High, Low, and Typical risk category. The FDA is…
More thinking on this subject. Over on The Economist website someone wrote in that United Healthcare is behind the FDA’s attack on 23andme. Apparently they have a long history of complaints about 23. And they have friends at the…