Medtronic Offers Assurances as Analysts Question Timeline for Artificial Pancreas

On Aug. 11 Medtronic announced the launch of a new insulin pumps for people who are 16 and older.

The MiniMed 630G system boasts a HD-color screen, is waterproof and has an intuitive, user-friendly interface along with the SmartGuard technology by which insulin delivery automatically shuts off when a low blood glucose threshold is reached preventing a life threatening situation.

But that announcement of a new hardware platform raised questions in the minds of analysts who were on Medtronic’s fiscal first-quarter earnings call on Thursday.
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