Freedom Meditech promises glucose-monitoring eye scanner
By Donald Melanson 
posted June 19th 2008 3:06PM
posted June 19th 2008 3:06PM
There's certainly no shortage of efforts out there to make glucose monitoring a bit easier for diabetics, but Freedom Meditech is now claiming to have developed one of the least invasive to date and, what's more, it says it's actually gearing up to start some clinical trials. That latter bit is apparently possible thanks to a newly formed partnership with Batelle, which is helping to raise the necessary capital, while the former bit got a boost from an arrangement with the University of Toledo, whose technology it is licensing. The key bit, it seems, is that Freedom Meditech's method involves scanning only the front portion of the eye (or, more specifically, the Aqueous humor where the glucose resides) instead of shining a light on the retina, which some similar methods use. That apparently not only delivers results faster, but reduces the risk of any potential long-term safety hazards from repeated laser exposure, which would also make it better suited as a tool for early screening of diabetes.
Please please please please please please let this work.....
*this product not tested on individuals with herpes of the eye
apparently, not apparnetly....
I have friends who are diabetic and innovations like these are like miracles.
Well, it's better than an eye-monitoring glucose scanner.
Happy fingers!
It would be cool if they could incorporate that technology into eyeglasses.
This is nothing new here in Brazil.
In 2002 researchers from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, developed the entire system that performs the measurement of glucose through the eyes.
Further information:
http://www.tede.ufsc.br/teses/PMCI0029.pdf
If you had read the article, you would have seen this:
"Freedom Meditech's method involves scanning only the front portion of the eye (or, more specifically, the Aqueous humor where the glucose resides) instead of shining a light on the retina, which some similar methods use."
Note that it's a different method entirely than the methods described in the PDF you linked.
This blog and the photo are taken directly from www.diabetesmine.com. You should at least give credit!!
This blog and the photo are taken from a news tip I sent in this morning, from my post at:
http://www.diabetesmine.com/2008/06/a-new-shot-at-glucose-monitoring-in-the-eye.html
You should at least give credit!
Umm, they did give credit; they linked directly to the blog.
I can't wait until something more pleasant than finger-sticking proves successful. I get so tired of the TV ads from the glucose meter companies saying things like "No more handling those pesky strips, with our new meter!" Please... putting the test strip into the meter is NOT the part we don't like.
Finally, the days of tasting my pee to test my glucose levels are over!
Meh....I test twice a day, down from 4 times when I was first diagnosed last fall. Not sure what the big deal is. Pinprick of blood, test, drop the strip in the pouch, away you go. Done in 20 seconds. Maybe one's fingers get more sensitive with age....or sensitivity varies from person to person. It just seems like there is this market for virtually pain free testing...where the pain is negligible, it seems, to begin with.
I guess dumping the need to buy strips would definitely be a plus.... *shrugs* Whatever.
If neuropathy has already killed the nerves in your fingers, it doesn't matter to you anymore, but people who aren't in as bad of shape are feeling the sting a lot worse than you.
Why do medics always do bloodtests like that with the top of the finger, the place that has several thousands more sensors than any other part of your hand which contains the same blood, and the place you constantly touch things with so you don't want pierced.
Don't answer that though, I think I know why, and what kind of people are drawn to such professions..
Hmm, I believe they used to mention the sources by name, which was much more noticeable. I had a bunch of readers forward me this post today asking what was up...?
Anyway, apologies.