Needle-Free Diabetes
Care
Diabetes self-care is a
pain—literally. It brings the constant need to draw blood for glucose testing,
the need for daily insulin shots and the heightened risk of infection from all
that poking. Continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps are today's best
options for automating most of the complicated daily process of blood sugar
management – but they don't completely remove the need for skin pricks and
shots. But there's new skin in this game. Echo Therapeutics (Philadelphia, PA) is developing
technologies that would replace the poke with a patch. The company is working
on a transdermal biosensor that reads blood analytes through the skin without
drawing blood. The technology involves a handheld electric-toothbrush-like
device that removes just enough top-layer skin cells to put the patient's blood
chemistry within signal range of a patch-borne biosensor. The sensor collects
one reading per minute and sends the data wirelessly to a remote monitor,
triggering audible alarms when levels go out of the patient's optimal range and
tracking glucose levels over time. I really like this new idea because it
minimize the pain and the people who take very poor care of their health when it come to their diabetes this can
be very beneficial.
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