New device holds promise of making blood glucose testing easier for patients with diabetes
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
Bioengineers and physicians are developing a device designed to make it easier for people with diabetes to monitor their health. Current monitoring devices require that people prick themselves to draw blood for a glucose-level test sample -- often several times a day. The new device would enable accurate glucose-level testing by using tear fluid as a test sample -- relieving people from having to draw blood repeatedly.