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By: Russ Stokes

Russ Stokes — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:45:03 +0000

Because my eight year old son has Type I diabetes and I have Type II, I understand the diffence in the two diseases and the difference in treatments. The one thing that we both have in common is the need to continiously check our blood sugar, more so with my son. When I look at his little finger tips and see all the roughness of the skin because of the frequent pricks he under goes, I am hopefull that there is a better way to perform this necessary test. I applaud Integrity Applications for the work they are doing with developing the GlucoTrack. It sounds like they are working hard to perfect it and hopefully this monitor will be available to people like myself and my son in the very near future.

As for John Smith and his post, it was negative and it appears he is misinformed and overlooked Integrity Applications and their GlucoTrack blood measurement device.

By: sam jacob

sam jacob — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:07:11 +0000

This is a good news for all diabetics suffering to those fingersticks. Accuracy must be checked properly before the company will release the product. Good luck for the development process of this kind of products. -sam

By: Avner Gal

Avner Gal — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:30:52 +0000

>>> Dear John Smith, <<<
After a long hesitation, I have decided to respond to your far from accurate comment.
As opposed to your claim “…being hyped by the inventors/founders in order to fund the company”, during our 7 years of operation, we NEVER did any PR activity and actually worked “below the radar”. This is probably the reason why you didn’t hear about us when you wrote your book, “The Pursuit of Noninvasive Glucose: ‘Hunting the Deceitful Turkey’”. Obviously, this article of Amy has nothing to do with funding the company! Sorry to ruin your theory.
As for the “Unproven Technology”, with all due respect, your claim is based on no real evidence and many dialectologists’ thoughts are on the contrary to yours. Proving the technology is done thoroughly, and by clinical trials. I don’t remember that you ever engaged in discussion with me in order to learn about our unique approach (combining three independent technologies) or about each of the technologies.
I believe that you mislead the readers by referring to “…100 or so techniques that preceded this one…”. There are few technologies for this matter, which the optical is the “leading” one, with variety of derivative techniques. When we began our research, we negated the optical technology. Therefore none of our technologies are optical or optical based.
As for your statement: “…but never developed a product that worked”. Well, here I would agree. However, that said, GlucoTrack® has a proven track record and does indeed work!
You blamed Amy that “Your readers deserve better treatment…”. I believe that your readers should expect from an expert like you a deeper understanding before making any statement against (or in favor of) any device. Moreover (based on your quote), at the very least, before you use hyped terms like “unproven”, ensure that it isn’t.
In summary, we have no intention of giving up just because of few non-scientific statements, and we shall keep working hard to bring a non invasive glucose monitoring device to the market, soon.
By the way, you are in good company: Lord Kelvin didn’t believe that machines heavier than air will ever fly (1895); Ken Olsen (co-founder and former president of Digital) didn’t believe there is a reason for a private individual to have a computer in his/her house (1977) and there are many more examples like that. Well, they all were of course proven wrong…

By: Avner Gal

Avner Gal — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:30:23 +0000

An important correction: it’s written that “The device was approved for commercialization in Europe mid-2010″. I believe it’s typo and want to clarify that we are now in official clinical trials and did not receive any approval yet. We are in the process for that and expecting to achieve CE Mark approval in mid 2010.

By: Antigonos

Antigonos — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:20:30 +0000

I have heard of this device via an article in an Israeli newspaper some time ago, and find it extremely intriguing and hope they get the glitches ironed out and can market it. Here in Israel, one in 5 adults now have type 2 diabetes, and with the aging of the population, the numbers will only go higher. Supplies for glucometers, and the machines themselves are heavily subsidized by the HMOs called Kupot Cholim, but the inconvenience of drawing blood still remains a big obstacle to getting good compliance, especially with the very elderly. However, when first reported, the price for the device was huge: something in the range of $500, which would not be affordable for individuals but rather for clinics to invest in. I’ve got my fingers crossed–I think it would be a great advance, if it can be affordable, and sufficiently accurate.

By: Patty A

Patty A — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:46:28 +0000

Lets not lose sight of the fact that we all need hope of a future not full of needle sticks. Remember that the makers of the ones we use now was at one time someones dream, the dream of being able to test at home. How great it would have been not that many years ago when home testing was the future yet to come. I think its important to keep dreaming and hoping for a future with far less needle sticks for those of us that test 4 to 6 times a day and feel that we are pin cushions. After all if we lose hope we lose what are the dreams that become our future for making life with diabetes eaiser! I think the news is great, I refuse to lose hope of a brighter and easier future of no finger sticks!

By: mcityrk

mcityrk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:36 +0000

@EBerry

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction,I did miss the Vienna poster and it answers a lot of my questions. Frankly, it was much better than I expected although the calibration protocol in not trivial and might require some professional assistance. However, if it really holds up over the long term and does not need to be repeated then they have something if accuracy can be further improved.

For the record here is what they said about calibration protocol and duration of calibration intervals:

Calibration: Calibration is performed individually against invasive basal and postprandial capillary fingertip BG references. Six invasive pre and post-prandial measurements generate individual calibration. The first measurement pair is taken in the fasting state. The calibration procedure is easy, lasts about 1.5 hours and more importantly, is valid for a month (a longer period is forecast in the future).

Subjects performed individual calibration against HemoCue® (Glucose 201+), followed by 6 measurement pairs (~2 hours measurement session). 8-10 hours (“full day”) session with GlucoTrack and HemoCue® simultaneous measurement pairs (~30 minutes intervals between pairs). Session included breakfast, lunch and snack. The interval between Calibration and Measurement days was 11.5±10.5days (according to subjects’ availability), with a median of 6 days.

By: Debbie Young

Debbie Young — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:26:34 +0000

If this is accurate enough to detect hypos and give general patterns, then it is the answer to my prayers! If it can reach this kind of quality, then I am sure you will sell it by the zillion – and please let me be one of the first in the queue (for my small daughter who has type 1)! Very happy to volunteer as a guinea pig if you need one!

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New Technology Uses Earlobe to Test Blood Sugar | Diabetes News Hound — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:03:41 +0000

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