POSTS TAGGED AS diabetes

Monitoring Tear Glucose

Not long after Banting and Macleod won a 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering insulin, scientists began investigating tears as [MORE]

Non-Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitor

The YouTube video at this site is a promotion of C8 MediSensors (San Jose, CA) continuous glucose monitor which [MORE]

Large Telemedicine Study in the UK

Last month, the UK Department of Health released results of a two year telemedicine study of 6,000 patients with [MORE]

Multiplexed Microneedle Biosensor Assay

Research collaborators in North Carolina, New Mexico and California have developed a microneedle biosensor that loads electrochemicals into multiple [MORE]

Continuous Glucose Monitoring Now in Trials

Last November, Medtronic began clinical trials of its “Enlite” sensor that continuously monitors glucose levels over six days.  The [MORE]

Growing Market for Wireless Patient Monitoring

Business analyst Kalorama Information (NYC) reports that the fastest growing sector (in terms of earned revenue) for medical devices [MORE]

Hand-Held Genomics Meter

It doesn’t take much of a leap of faith to imagine a handheld glucose meter-like device used to sense [MORE]

Telehealth: Diabetes Tracking

Recently, a study group at the University of Maryland reported that their test of automated real time education and [MORE]

Nanosensor Tattoos

By designing polymer nanoparticles that contain a capture molecule, a charge neutralizing molecule and a fluorescent dye, researchers at [MORE]

Optogenetics

Imagine an implantable bolus containing a patient’s own cells which have been reengineered to contain a light sensitive protein that [MORE]

Diabetes Prevalence Since 1980

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization, a group of public health [MORE]

Blood Glucose Reading from Exhaled Breath

A patent must prove to be novel, useful and not obvious, and it has been the usefulness of earlier [MORE]

Near Infrared Non-Invasive Glucose Monitor

The solution is as dumbfounding as the problem it addresses, diabetes.  Millions of diabetics know they have to closely [MORE]

M2M Wireless for Diabetes Monitoring

Positive ID Corporation (Delray Beach, FL, formerly Verichip Corporation) recently signed an agreement to partner with AT&T for wireless [MORE]

Insulin Delivery Film Inside the Mouth

MonoSol Rx (Warren, NJ), a pharmaceutical company specializing in film drug delivery, and Midatech (Oxford, UK), a maker of [MORE]

Data Mining Depression

What will be the world’s leading cause of disability by 2020?  The World Health Organization predicts it will be [MORE]

Ocular Glucose Measurement

Saying that “the eye can be thought of as an optical window into the body for the painless measurement [MORE]

Ear-Implanted Microbeads to Monitor Blood Glucose

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Life Bio Electromechanical Autonomous Nano Systems Center recently reported in [MORE]

Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Business Forecast

Medical market watcher Kalorama Information (NYC) notes the astonishing growth of continuous blood glucose monitoring systems (i.e. insulin pump [MORE]

Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring, for Pets

The novelty of this story is that a researcher at the University of Missouri’s College of Veterinary Medicine [MORE]