Comments on: Product Roundup: Continuous Monitors (in the Holding Pen), Convenience Enhancers

By: Richard Cutts

Richard Cutts — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:46:19 +0000

International nursing agency offering permanent and temporary job placements for nurses in various countries like USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, etc. The agency also helps nurses with visa processing, relocation support and professional advice for nurses worldwide.

By: Christian Sarwa

Christian Sarwa — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:32:24 +0000

I am a UK based Venture Investor and need you help: Would anyone of you invest continuous non-invasive glucose monitoring using Impedance Spectroscopy? What is your bet? Why yes? Why no? Thanks!

By: T Mitch

T Mitch — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:43:42 +0000

Well I feel like Kathleen Weaver, I have been searching for the blood glucose meter that looks like a regular wrist watch. Yeah like the little girl on Panic Room and I also seen another show on Lifetime where a girl was kidnapped and she also was wearing a watch glucose monitor. i think my son would check his sugars regular if he had something that didn’t point out he was a diabetic. Plus it would be helpful for drivers that are type 1 diabetic. The wrist watch alarm would go off and you could stop for a drink or eat candy in the car. I am so disappointed to know someone has not perfected this idea. I think this would help in so many ways.

By: George

George — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:40:53 +0000

Well guys i have to tell you. I just have purchased the Dexcom machine and its awesome. Every penny was worth it. When you check your blood sugar 14 times a day, this machine is a life saver.

By: AmyT

AmyT — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:37:46 +0000

Thanks, Simon. I added a bit about the glucose-sensing contact lenses in “Weekly Nuggets” today. Neat!

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:22:27 +0000

Read this in The Guardian the other day…sounds quite interesting:

Alok Jha
Thursday October 13, 2005

Guardian

Diabetics will soon be able to monitor their blood glucose levels by looking straight ahead, thanks to contact lenses developed at Cambridge University.
Chris Lowe led a team which developed lenses with a multi-layered hologram imprinted on their surface. The layers react to glucose in tear fluid, changing colour when the levels get dangerously low. Prof Lowe’s work is one of 11 projects funded as part of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s £20m Link Biotechnology Initiative, started in 1997.

The project results will be announced at the Royal Society today.

By: JER

JER — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:24:05 +0000

A quick observation on the Calisto glucoband watch: on their web site, they advertise they’ve had 44 clinical subjects, and their graphs show a total of 56 points – basically a single measurement per subject (for all the research they’ve supposedly done? 56 whopping measurements?). This is NOT enough to show correlation of blood glucose to anything. You can’t cherrypick data and expect it fly with the FDA. I hate to say it, but this company is yet another joke in the monitoring business.

BTW, great site here; thanks.

By: AmyT

AmyT — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 05:07:12 +0000

Hi Martha,
Sounds like you’d be way more interested in the DexCom product. That one is tiny, and stays put for three days, I believe.

That’s the one I’m waiting for!

By: Martha O'Connor

Martha O'Connor — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 04:30:02 +0000

Count me among the disappointed, particularly regarding the Freestyle Navigator. I was given to believe this would be a tiny, implantable device, maybe the size of a pinky nail. Not a device the size of a pump. I had no idea.

Have heard from multiple people involved in the clinical trials for Glucowatch that it’s more trouble than it’s worth (difficulty calibrating, frequent errors…). Maybe this new version is better.

*SIGH* I’ve been talking about the Navigator with so many people. I was so hopeful. This doesn’t sound like what I thought it was going to be at all. But, I will stay tuned.

By: Martha O'Connor

Martha O'Connor — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 04:30:02 +0000

*SIGH* I’ve been talking about the Navigator with so many people. I was so hopeful. This doesn’t sound like what I thought it was going to be at all. But, I will stay tuned.