Global Technology – December 2016

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 29 million people in the United States have diabetes and 86 million have prediabetes.  For diabetics and those at risk for diabetes, self-monitoring of blood glucose, or blood sugar, is an important part of managing their conditions.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas are developing a wearable device that can monitor an individual’s glucose level via perspiration on the skin.  In a study recently published online in the journal Sensors and Actuators B: Chemi.....