by Bruce Brown | June 24, 2016 | General News, Medical
Type I diabetes comes with a lifetime commitment to maintaining health. Patients have to measure blood glucose levels and adjust insulin levels as necessary as indicated by multiple finger stick blood tests daily. Glucose monitors can reduce the number of...
by Alfred Poor | April 15, 2016 | General News, Medical
About 5 million people in the U.S. have type 2 diabetes, but none of them can use the wearable PAQ insulin infusion device from CeQur. Yet. That’s because the device has not yet received FDA clearance for use in the U.S., though it has received CE approval in...
by Alfred Poor | April 4, 2016 | General News, Medical
Many maintenance treatments are simple; you just take a pill once or twice a day. For patients with Type 2 diabetes, it’s not so easy. Diet, exercise, and even the time of day affect how much insulin a patient needs to inject throughout the day. A drop of blood...
by Bruce Brown | December 30, 2015 | General News, Health
Approximately 30 million adults and children in the U.S. have diabetes, with another 86 million estimated to be prediabetic. Once someone is diagnosed with the disease, regular blood glucose measurements are necessary, as often as four to eight times a day. It’s...
by Alfred Poor | December 21, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have become a miracle material; researchers are finding wide ranging applications from transparent conductive layers to solar cells to printable electronics. Scientists at the University of Texas Arlington (UT) is working on a new device that...