Video of Blood Glucose Monitor Construction
October 28, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
While today’s drug-store type blood glucose monitors are electronically simple and fairly inexpensive devices, their arrival in medical history caused a business earthquake for endocrinologists and the millions of dollars physicians derived from weekly office visits by diabetics now goes to the device and test strip manufacturers in the hundreds of millions of dollars. This piece has an interesting “breakdown” video that is instructive in both engineering and economics. MORE
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