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Google allies with Sanofi to fight diabetes

fer's profile photo   09/01/2015 10:14 a.m.

The technological firm Google announced today that its health issues unit will work together with the French pharmacist Sanofi to find new ways to control and treat diabetes.

Sanofi is one of the main world manufacturers of diabetes treatments and Google's health division (Google Life Sciences) develops small devices connected to the Internet to collect data on the disease, as well as software for the development of new treatments.

Google and Sanofi will seek new ways to store and analyze in real time information on glucose levels to better manage disease and avoid long -term complications such as heart attacks and cancer.

"We can see how the sensors, computer devices to bring positions and analytical tools can help people and doctors to obtain much more useful and easily more useful information about the evolution of their ailment and act based on it,"Google said in a statement.

Google Life Sciences began its work two years ago and is part of the measures to diversify the company beyond its search engine.

The division has agreements with other firms such as Novartis and Biogen.

Collaboration with Sanofi and other companies aims to combine knowledge about medicines with other knowledge in the area of ​​medical devices, software and computer infrastructure.

The alliance with Novartis aims, for example, to produce on a large scale and carry out large studies with the supervision of the US authorities of some lenses that measure glucose levels in diabetics.

Google also announced this month that it will work with the firm Dexcom, which develops devices for glucose measurement, to develop a sensor to the size of a shiver that stores the data collected in "The Cloud".

Sanofi is the manufacturer of Lantus, the most used insulin in the world.

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09/01/2015 10:14 a.m.

@fer - Diabetes Tipo 1 desde 1.998 | FreeStyle Libre 3 | Ypsomed mylife YpsoPump + CamAPS FX | Sin complicaciones. Miembro del equipo de moderación del foro.
Co-Autor de Vivir con Diabetes: El poder de la comunidad online, parte de los ingresos se destinan a financiar el foro de diabetes y mantener la comunidad online activa.

  

Google is ready, has seen that in the issue of diabetes we are in the stone age, and that there is a great market opportunity if products are started according to this century.

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Artorias
09/01/2015 12:48 p.m.
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let's see...

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INTRUSA
09/01/2015 4:51 p.m.

DM1 desde 1991
Bombera desde el 22/07/2013
Última hemo 30/10/2014 --> 6,1%

  

Well, Ale to see if a few companies are chopped and this moves something

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Gala
09/01/2015 4:54 p.m.

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Google, Apple and other great technology a year ago or so they have begun to look at the "health" sector, hope it is for good !!!;)

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09/01/2015 5:04 p.m.

@fer - Diabetes Tipo 1 desde 1.998 | FreeStyle Libre 3 | Ypsomed mylife YpsoPump + CamAPS FX | Sin complicaciones. Miembro del equipo de moderación del foro.
Co-Autor de Vivir con Diabetes: El poder de la comunidad online, parte de los ingresos se destinan a financiar el foro de diabetes y mantener la comunidad online activa.

  

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