Diabetes

Tattoos could help diabetics track their blood sugar

Many diabetics endure daily finger pricks to test their blood sugar levels. But advances in nanotechnology could soon mean that diabetics need endure the needle only once: to get a glucose-tracking tattoo. Postdoctoral researcher Paul Barone and professor Michael Strano of MIT’s Department of Engineering are working to develop nanoparticle tattoos that will allow diabetics…

io9 Lauren Davis May 28

Can Dolphins Help Scientists Cure Diabetes?

Not content with trying to warn us about the impending destruction of the planet Earth, it now appears that dolphins may also hold the key to curing a strain of diabetes. Is there nothing these cute mammals can’t do? According the scientists, the key lies in dolphins’ ability to voluntarily control insulin resistance that can…

io9 Graeme McMillan Feb 21

Color-Changing Contacts Monitor Your Glucose Levels

For diabetics, finger pricking could be a thing of the past. A biochemical engineer has developed contact lenses embedded with nanoparticles that react with the glucose in tears. As glucose levels change, so does the color of the lens. [PopSci]

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 23

Color-Shifting Contact Lenses Alert Diabetics to Glucose Levels

Diabetics are saddled with the unenviable task of checking their blood sugar levels constantly. But a new non-invasive technology lets diabetics keep tabs on their glucose levels with contact lenses that change colors as their blood sugar rises and falls. Nanoparticles — is there anything they can’t do? — embedded in the hydrogel lenses react…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Dec 23

Tattoo Doubles as a Blood Glucose Level Monitor: Rebellious Yet Cautious

A Cambridge laboratory has developed a special ink for tattoos that changes color based on glucose levels in the blood. On a related note, diabetes is now the hippest metabolic syndrome in town. The ink is made up of a bunch of tiny spheres, about 120 nanometers across, that contain “the glucose detecting molecule, a…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Feb 14

Non-Monogamy Gives Men Diabetes

A group of medical researchers has discovered that promiscuous males are prone to diabetes and less able to handle stress. In a rather odd study published today in biology journal Disease Models and Mechanisms, scientists showed a correlation between a tendency to sleep around and a vulnerability to the disease that affects blood sugar levels.…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 6

Implanted Microchip Will Monitor Your Health, Deliver Drugs From Under Your Skin

One of the most frustrating aspects of dealing with a chronic illness, such as diabetes or lupus, is the need to test your body constantly to make sure you’re healthy. MicroCHIPS is looking to alleviate that with a new device that’s implanted under the skin of a patient. The “chip,” about the size of a…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 21

World’s Smallest Blood Glucose Meter Gets FDA Approved: True2Go

Testing your blood glucose levels if you’re a diabetes sufferer may not mean hauling around largeish devices now that the True2Go from Home Diagnostics has won FDA approval. It’s the world’s smallest, “about the size of a quarter”… it’s just about the same size as an iPod shuffle. It’s small enough to twist “on to…

Health Kit Eaton Aug 28

M-Powered System Turns a Lincoln Into the Diabetesmobile

I never thought about this before, but driving around in a car can be especially dangerous for people with severe cases of diabetes. Fortunately for them (and everyone else on the road), a company called Medtronic Diabetes has unveiled its new M-POWERED car-a Lincoln sedan fitted with a system that wirelessly connects a patient’s glucose…

Health Sean Fallon Jun 11

Portable Urine Glucose Meter Hates Needles, Loves Pee

Most diabetics are tough enough to routinely test their blood without crying about it (the alternative to death is certainly a good one), but Tanita has announced a portable digital urine glucose meter for those with sugar-management diseases like diabetes and metabolic syndrome that needs no blood. A portable unit of what they’ve had in…

Gadgets Mark Wilson May 21

Insulin Watch Concept Gives You Your Fix and Tells the Time

Sufferers of Type-I diabetes will appreciate this concept insulin-delivering watch from Germany. Piezoelectricity generated by the wearer’s movements drive the insulin-delivering pumps in the watch body, which contains enough of the drug for two to three weeks. The idea is to make life a little more normal for diabetics rather than have them wrestle with…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Dec 19

Glucoboy Makes Blood-Testing (Sort of) Fun With GBA and Online Gaming Rewards

When it comes to diabetes blood-testing the word “fun” does not spring to mind. However, the Glucoboy could change all that by rewarding consistent testing and good results. When the blood glucose meter is combined with a Game Boy Advance or Nintendo DS, kids can earn points that will unlock mini-games on the included cartridge…

Tech News Sean Fallon Dec 6

Digital Angel Corporation Awarded Patent for Implantable RFID Microchips

Rejoice, diabetics! No, you still can’t have any delicious donuts, but you can more closely monitor your glucose levels without the need for finger pricks. Digital Angel (the company name sounds like a myspace username or something) was awarded a patent for their embedded bio-sensor system. The system works by implanting a glucose-sensing RFID microchip…

Health Travis Hudson Oct 26

GlucoPhone: A Cellphone for Diabetics

Good news, diabetics! No, there isn’t a new gadget to magically make all delicious foods sugar free, but there is a new cellphone out that can manage your diabetes easily and conveniently. This phone, from the folks at HealthPia, is essentially a cellphone and glucometer. It will measure blood sugar levels, record and send results…

Health Travis Hudson Aug 16

GlucoTrack Non-Invasively Measures Blood Sugar

Integrity Applications has figured out a way to measure blood sugar on-the-spot without breaking the skin. GlucoTrack is a non-invasive glucometer that uses a combination of ultrasound, conductivity and heat capacity to measure glucose levels via an ear clip. The product is to undergo phase 2 clinical trials in the next month or two in…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 15

Pokeless Diabetes Testing

Some Smarty McSmartPants over at Syracuse University has patented a new technology and device to provide an easier and non-painful way to test blood glucose level. His name is Joseph Chaiken and it is actually really good news for the diabetic community. This works by shining a laser light onto the finger, it then analyzes…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Oct 13

Tattoos could help diabetics track their blood sugar

Can Dolphins Help Scientists Cure Diabetes?

Color-Changing Contacts Monitor Your Glucose Levels

Color-Shifting Contact Lenses Alert Diabetics to Glucose Levels

Tattoo Doubles as a Blood Glucose Level Monitor: Rebellious Yet Cautious

Non-Monogamy Gives Men Diabetes

Implanted Microchip Will Monitor Your Health, Deliver Drugs From Under Your Skin

World’s Smallest Blood Glucose Meter Gets FDA Approved: True2Go

M-Powered System Turns a Lincoln Into the Diabetesmobile

Portable Urine Glucose Meter Hates Needles, Loves Pee

Insulin Watch Concept Gives You Your Fix and Tells the Time

Glucoboy Makes Blood-Testing (Sort of) Fun With GBA and Online Gaming Rewards

Digital Angel Corporation Awarded Patent for Implantable RFID Microchips

GlucoPhone: A Cellphone for Diabetics

GlucoTrack Non-Invasively Measures Blood Sugar

Pokeless Diabetes Testing

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