Food & health startups can compete to secure $100,000 in non-dilutive money through the Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge. Submit your entry by 4/7.[...]
Sponsoring challenges can be a great way for companies to discover new partners and products. Sanofi-aventis’ US Diabetes division is using them to reinvigorate its business model.[...]
Earlier this week, the winner of Sanofi US’s 2012 Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge, an open competition that encourages the use of data and design to improve [...]
Americans may be spending less money on food, but dollars saved are just being spent on the resulting costs of poor health that plague the nation.
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If you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed that many of the startups I’ve interviewed are data-driven. Why? Because addressing even the seemingly most bas[...]
This interactive visualization by SlateLabs demonstrates the rise in diabetes diagnoses among adult Americans. Slate used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention t[...]
What is the Farm Bill? The Farm Bill is the 700-page, $289 billion federal legislation that sets the rules and appropriations for the U.S. food system. While originally created as [...]
Does your organization ever have problems that seem too difficult, large, or expensive to solve? If you work within the food system, your answer is most likely YES. Why? Because th[...]
"Would you ever eat 16 packs of sugar?" That's what NYC Department of Health is asking in their newly released internet “Pouring On the Pounds” campaign video.[...]