RFID Needle Free Glucose Testing System Closer To Reality

Filed in archive Healthcare , Information About on October 2, 2008

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Jim DeLillo

This is a device which every diabetes patient would like to own and if you ask me why then it would give them freedom from the pain caused by needle pricking. Developed by team from Gentag, GAEL and SAIC, this enables diabetics to keep a watch on their sugar levels with RFID cell phones minus painful pricking done using needles. The skin patch which looks similar to a Band-Aid comes with noninvasive sensor which can measure glucose levels of a person and transmit the results to your phone or hand held reader.

Generally diabetics are discouraged by needle pricking system and the pain and costs associated with it prevents them from testing their glucose levels as per the requirement which can at times prove to be fatal.

In case of this new glucose testing system the glucose sensors come with a tiny heating element and when the element warms up to around 130°C for 30 milliseconds it burns the outer level of dead skin cells which enables access to interstitial fluid beneath the layer to assess the body glucose levels.

The development phase is over as of now and we all are waiting with baited breath for the commercial release of this RFID glucose sensor.

Now who said there is no gain without pain? The person who said these words would surely have to take them back after his experience with the new glucose level testing device.

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