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03/18/2018 / By David Williams

No more needles: Diabetics can now monitor blood sugar levels through tears or sweat with a new biosensor

The first step in fighting back against diabetes is checking to see if a patient does indeed have it in the first place. In most cases, this is done through tracking a person’s glucose levels through their blood, which means going with the conventional prick method. This entails performing a slightly invasive and not-so-painless method […]

02/01/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

New device measures blood sugar from sweat instead of blood, for pain-free monitoring

Finger-prick tests for monitoring blood glucose levels in diabetic patients may become a thing of the past with the development of a smart sweatband that measures blood sugar levels through sweat. According to the DailyMail.co.uk, the sweatband – developed by researchers from Seoul National University – is able to do this thanks to its highly […]

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