An estimated one-third of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis, with active infections typically emerging in the most vulnerable populations such as those with HIV, malnutrition or diabetes. It's one of the most common bacterial infections – and is among the most common causes of death worldwide, second only to HIV/AIDS as a deadly infectious disease.

Milpitas, Calif.-based Bigfoot Biomedical Inc. has raised $37 million in an initial tranche of a series B round to advance its development and clinical testing of a pair of diabetes products. These include an infusion pump-based, closed-loop, automated insulin delivery system, known as Bigfoot Loop, and an auto-titrating, connected, insulin pen-based system, known as Bigfoot Inject.

Given the ever-present hype around artificial intelligence (AI) as transformative to entire industries, including health care, it’s always useful to take a close look at the data. One of the latest efforts on that front was an analysis of several competing deep learning algorithms used to detect the spread of breast cancer to the lymph nodes that was recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

The long-eroding boundary between consumer and medical devices has been definitely crossed. After a review of about a year and a half, the FDA has cleared the wrist-worn Kardia Band from Alivecor Inc. for the Apple Watch that can take a medical-grade electrocardiogram (EKG) in 30 seconds as the user touches it with a thumb.