Tear drops may rival blood drops in testing blood sugar in diabetes
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 16:31
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.