Tear drops may rival blood drops in testing blood sugar in diabetes
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 11:01
in Health & Medicine
Scientists are reporting development and successful laboratory testing of an electrochemical sensor device that has the potential to measure blood sugar levels from tears instead of blood an advance that could save the world's 350 million diabetes patients the discomfort of pricking their fingers for droplets of blood used in traditional blood sugar tests. Their report appears in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry.