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An End to Bloodletting?

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Michael D. Wheeler, News Editor

Each day millions of diabetics perform a ritual, stabbing their fingers with a metal lancet to draw a few drops of blood. After the blood is placed on a test strip, a machine reads the strip and provides a reading in about half a minute. The discomfort and inconvenience of this finger pricking has led many diabetics to neglect testing -- putting them at risk for serious health problems, including kidney failure, stroke and blindness. It comes as no surprise, then, that many health care providers have sought a less invasive way to test glucose levels. A competitively priced, accurate...Read full article

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