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Volume 156, Number 2 (July 10, 1999)

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Device could end diabetes pinpricks

A watchlike device that measures glucose by monitoring moisture absorbed from the skin might someday replace the finger-stick blood tests done by many people with diabetes.

References:

Garg, S.K., et al. 1999. Correlation of GlucoWatch biographer glucose values with Hemocue blood glucose results in young subjects with type 1 diabetes. Meeting of the American Diabetes Association. June. San Diego.

Sources:

Satish K. Garg
University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center
4200 East 9th Avenue
Box B140
Denver, CO 80262

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 2, July 10, 1999, p. 31. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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