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World's Smallest Blood Glucose Meter Gets FDA Approved: True2Go Testing your blood glucose levels if you're a diabetes sufferer may not mean hauling around largeish devices now that the True2Go from Home Diagnostics has won FDA approval. It's the world's smallest, "about the size of a quarter"...

By Jonathan Kimak The prospect of going to the doctor to get vaccination shots can be a total nightmare for kids and even adults. Some of that fear of needles can be attributed more to the intimidating size of the needle than the actual injection. Now a new needle has eliminated the size and the sting.

Johnson & Johnson, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, reported sales of $16.5 billion for the second quarter of 2008, an increase of 8.7% compared with the corresponding period of the previous year.

Scientists from the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center have reported the invention of a device that “captures images of the eye to detect metabolic stress and tissue damage that occur before the first symptoms of disease are evident.” More information from a Release dated July 14: ‘Snapshots’

FreeStyle Navigator Wear: Two Lumps I don’t want this post to sound negative, as I’m quite liking the modus operandi of the FreeStyle Navigator.  But as you can see, reader June S. hit the nail on the head when she said, “Yikes!

As of Sunday evening at 9pm, I’m on the Navigator!  That would be the newest continuous glucose monitoring system from Abbott Diabetes, approved by the FDA this past March.  Approval took much longer than expected, while the company had been promising me a close look at the product for over a year,

Car manufacturers have not taken advantage of the in-car navigation system, which can do far more than give directions to people who can’t drive by feel but here’s a good concept for a diabetes monitoring system. Heck, you could put a whole operating system in there if it isn’t there already.

For at least three consecutive years now at the annual ADA Conference, we keep hearing about a rumored switchover from the A1c as the gold standard average glucose measurement. Instead, we’ll get something new and supposedly easier to understand: a new measure that more closely reflects the mg/dL (and

Bloodless Update: May 08 Edition We're all waiting for some truly bloodless glucose monitoring technology, of which there is much on the horizon. The wait, however, is long and tedious. Still, we love to hear about what's coming, don't we? I stamped this post "May 08 edition," because I'm quite sure the Bloodless Update will be an ongoing series.

Johnson & Johnson, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, reported sales of $16.2 billion for the first quarter of 2008, an increase of 7.7% compared with the corresponding period of the previous year. More information from Johnson & Johnson’s Press Release dated April 15: “Sales results reflect the strong performance of the U.S.