The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)’s new Clinical Trials Connection website gives patients helpful information about what is involved in a clinical trial and a means to find trials that are best suited for them.
A painless patch that uses tiny micro-needles to monitor diabetic patients’ glucose levels is in development at the Electronic Technology group of the University of Seville in Spain, according to a press release. The needles are just 200 microns wide — about twice the diameter of a human hair — and they draw samples of [...]
Patients are increasingly able to cut back on doctor’s visits by using home monitoring devices that collect vital signs such as blood glucose, weight, and blood pressure, and send that data electronically to their doctor. Telemonitoring, as it’s called, is taking off both because of technology improvements and the need to cut the cost of [...]
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