- New touch-based fingertip blood-free, painless, reliable blood sugar monitoring leverages fast sweat rate on the fingertip, without needing finger pricks or blood, should lead to frequent self-testing of glucose and enhanced patient compliance toward improved management of diabetes. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssensors.1c00139 96 comments science
- Researchers have devised a non-invasive way to make glucose monitoring easier. Using infrared laser light applied on top of the skin, they measure sugar levels in the fluid in and under skin cells to read blood sugar levels...potentially eliminating the need for diabetes to 'prick' themselves. http://phys.org/news/2013-10-blood-sugar.html 7 comments science
- How one woman built her own artificial pancreas and started a DIY movement – "an open-source computer system that monitors her blood sugar level and gives her body insulin as needed, building on the insulin pump and glucose monitor that she’s been using for years." https://www.geekwire.com/2017/health-tech-podcast-one-woman-built-artificial-pancreas-started-diy-movement/ 45 comments technology