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Google Glass-based startup raises $17 million in funding

(Reuters) – Augmedix Inc, a startup that uses Alphabet Inc's Google Glass to provide documentation services to doctors and other healthcare workers, said on Monday it had closed a $17 million funding round led by investment firm Redmile Group. Augmedix's employees transcribe doctors' notes and update patients' electronic medical record through Google Glass. The San Francisco company, which has raised $40 million so far, also said it had received investments from five U.S. healthcare networks, including Sutter Health and Dignity Health, which together have more than 100,000 healthcare workers.

India’s Cadila gets FDA warning for violating standards at 2 plants

India’s Cadila Healthcare Ltd said it had received a “warning letter” from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for violating manufacturing standards at two of its production sites in India, sending its shares down 15 percent on Thursday. The company said its Moraiya and Ahmedabad facilities have been cited in the letter, and it is working on responding to the FDA concerns regarding the sites. None of Cadila’s products being sold in the United States use any raw materials made at the Ahmedabad plant, it added.