Richard Macdonald's 8-year-old daughter has type 1 diabetes and the family recently started using the Share system. "[Our daughter] is most happy about two things. First, she doesn't need to do finger pricks as often as before we got the [continuous glucose monitoring system]. And secon...
No More Finger Pricks: New Gadgets Let People Monitor Diabetes Digitally.Focuses on needleless products which allow diabetes patients to monitor glucose levels. Features of such devices as the GlucoWatch Biographer by Cygnus and the FreeStyle by Therasense; Benefits for diabetes patients; Future ...
Most of the 30 million Americans with diabetes use standard glucose meters, which require multiple finger pricks each day and only show current sugar level. More-accurate continuous glucose monitoring devices are used by about 345,000 Americans. But most don't do the finger pricks to calibrate t...
I have Type 1 diabetes, which means my body doesn't produce any insulin. So I have to inject insulin to regulate my blood sugar and check my levels by using a glucometer. This means I have to stick my finger with a needle anywhere from 5 to 10 times a day. Dexcom provided me with...
The researchers are working on developing a closed-loop system that not only monitors biomarkers, but also administers treatments based on the collected data. For instance, in the case of diabetes, such a device could continuously monitor glucose levels and automatically deliver insulin as needed, ...
MIT device may allow glucose testing minus the finger pricks. (cover story)The article focuses on the research study by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Spectroscopy Laboratory in August 2010 on a noninvasive technique for diabetes patients to measure blood glucose levels...
EDITOR—Probably billions of fingerpricks have been performed by people with diabetes since self monitoring of blood glucose concentrations was introduced in 1979. The site usually recommended is the side of the fingers rather than the thumb or …doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7269.1161/a...
We report the case of a 57-year-old man with diabetes in whom severe Raynaud's phenomenon and digital infarction were precipitated by finger pricks made to obtain blood for blood glucose monitoring. We discuss the possible mechanisms involved....