Advanced Devices Ease Burden of Glucose Monitoring for Diabetics

摘要

For most of the world's many diabetics,monitoring blood sugar remains a time-consuming,inaccurate,and painful multiple-times-a-day,chemistry-laboratory-in-the-kitchen experience.Now,hope for easing this burden is being delivered by medical device manufacturers with striking advances in monitoring technology.The latest generation of glucose monitors are highly accurate,easy to use,and relatively painless.Applied directly to the skin for weeks at a time,these small sensors make tracking glucose levels as simple as glancing at a smartphone.They also take medical technology one step closer to the holy grail of fully automated,"closed-loop"delivery systems for insulin,which could go a long way to effectively freeing diabetics from the shackles-and perhaps worst health effects and risks-of their disease.