Could a Patch Monitor Diabetes?

  • Mar 2016

According to an article in Health Day News, an experimental device created by Korean researchers might one day literally take the pain out of managing diabetes.

A patch — not unlike those to aid in smoking cessation or motion sickness — could be used to monitor blood sugar levels via sweat, and delivers the diabetes drug metformin through the skin with microneedles.

The findings were published online March 21 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The study team was led by Dae-Hyeong Kim, at Seoul National University. Funding for the study was provided by the Institute for Basic Science in the Republic of Korea.

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