Tag: Diabetes

One Drop App Helps Manage Diabetes

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After Razorfish co-founder Jeff Dachis was diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes at the age of 47, he turned to his smartphone for software to manage the disease—but came up short on options. Being a serial entrepreneur, Dachis decided to create his own app, One Drop, that would fill the void in diabetes management apps. One Drop allows users to log and share information with each other, …

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Temporary Tattoo-Based Glucose Monitoring

UCSD researchers develop a wearable that painlessly detects dangerous blood sugar levels

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Living with diabetes comes with a plethora of difficulties, and drawing blood to test glucose levels every day is certainly not the least of them. Fortunately, nanoengineers at UC San Diego are paving the way toward the painful technique’s obsolescence, with a new wearable tech that can monitor blood sugar levels without breaking the skin. Developed by graduate student Amay Bandodkar, the device uses small …