by Bruce Brown | August 11, 2022 | Medical
Blood glucose monitoring has always been one of the most-watched technologies in digital health and smart wearables. In early 2017, Health Tech Insider first covered Paris-based PKVitality’s ongoing development of a new technology that uses microscopic probes to...
by Bruce Brown | March 7, 2017 | General News, Health
Approximately 1.6 billion people in the world have diabetes or prediabetes, according to World Health Organization figures. Of that immense number, only 1 in 20 of those have Type 1, the autoimmune form of the disease. The remainder of diabetics and virtually all...
by Bruce Brown | February 27, 2017 | General News, Medical
We’ve covered various clever glucose monitoring systems: Integrity Applications’ GlucoTrack ear clip device, Dario’s Blood Glucose Monitoring System handheld system, and the NovioSense device that reads glucose levels from tears. The massive need to track...
by Alfred Poor | January 24, 2017 | General News, Medical
Diabetics who rely on insulin to maintain their blood glucose levels have to draw blood several times a day, usually through a finger prick. There are continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) that can take measurements, but these still rely on a needle that penetrates below...