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Bayer’s Didget Blood Glucose Monitoring System for Kids
If you have a child with diabetes, you know how vital frequent blood glucose checks are for his or her health. However, kids often resist these checks because they hurt. Bayer has developed the...
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Bayer’s Contour USB Monitor Simplifies Diabetes Management
If you have diabetes, you know it’s important to check your blood glucose levels, but you also know it can be difficult to track and make sense of the data. The Contour USB Monitor from Bayer is the...
View ArticleThe JDRF Artificial Pancreas Project
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes each year. With a total shutdown of insulin production, this illness requires regular testing and injections. The...
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Med Sensation Tricorder Glove
A graduate studies program at the Singularity University California has resulted in the Tricorder Glove by Med Sensation. “This glove will eventually allow patients to diagnosis their own illnesses....
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Scanadu Scout – or is it a Tricorder?
“By golly, Jim… I’m beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!” — Doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy (The Devil in the Dark) Science fiction or science fact? We might have thought that the tricorder from...
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Help your child (or yourself) conquer a fear of medical injections by...
When my daughter was much younger, she had to suffer through a lot of allergy testing and allergy injections (sometimes as many as three a week). Because this testing started when she was barely a...
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This alarm can help you remember your medicine
If you or a loved one has a lot of medicine to take daily, you may already be familiar with MedCenter. They make pill organizer systems, like the ones seen in the top photos, that can hold up to four...
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The epill Cadex Platinum medication alarm watch for women
Although epill also makes medication alarm watches in unisex and in children’s models, this Cadex Platinum watch is designed for women. The watch has a silver case and a stretchy band with...
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The Veta Smart Case for EpiPen could save your life
Within the first few months of her life, my daughter exhibited asthma and an array of allergies, including one to peanuts. We had to give her treatments several times a day to protect her lungs and...
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Bandage that fluoresces in the presence of harmful bacteria
Researchers from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom have developed a smart bandage. This bandage is “a prototype of the color-changing bandage, which contains a gel-like material infused with...
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Having problems with ringing, buzzing, or rushing sounds? Try the Tinnitus...
According to WebMD, tinnitus affects about 50 million adults in the U.S. “Tinnitus (pronounced ti-ni-tis), or ringing in the ears, is the sensation of hearing ringing, buzzing, hissing, chirping,...
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QardioArm wireless blood pressure monitor review
For those of us that suffer from hypertension, keeping track of our blood pressure is important. An annual check up with the Doctor isn’t enough, so home testing is helpful. I’ve used several...
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Kinsa Smart Thermometer review
Getting sick is obviously no fun, but having an easy way to track your fevers can be just a little more fun when you use the Kinsa Smart Thermometer. You might be thinking, why should I spend money on...
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Withings Thermo smart temporal thermometer review
There are lots of reasons to take your temperature. Maybe you’re feeling ill and want to see if you have a fever. Or maybe you’re trying to get pregnant and are tracking your temps to see when the...
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Protect your EpiPen with the EpiShell
If you or your child has a life-threatening allergy, you probably carry an EpiPen with you. If you have an EpiPen, you are aware that temperature extremes can damage the drug and reduce its...
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Keep track of your child’s temperature automatically over a 24 hour period...
One of my children suffered from a febrile seizure many years ago (seizures that are brought on by a spike in body temperature over a short period of time). Apparently, these are fairly common, and to...
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MOCACare MOCACuff connected wrist blood pressure monitor review
High blood pressure is a condition that has been referred to as a silent killer because people who suffer from it don’t always have symptoms until it’s too late. When your blood pressure is too high,...
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iHealth Smart Gluco-Monitoring System review
In 2004 I was diagnosed with diabetes. Yay me! I immediately cut out as much sugar as possible from my diet and have been lucky enough not to have to go on insulin or other medications to manage the...
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Organize your daily medications into individual packets with the PillSuite
Have you ever gone on a trip and had to pack all your bottles of medications and supplements only to find they take up too much space? The PillSuite helps eliminate that problem. This system allows...
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This giant “ball bearing” will soothe your aching muscles
If you’re an athlete or you work out on a regular basis, you know what it’s like to have sore muscles. Even I get achy muscles with my lame attempts to keep in shape. Finding a way to soothe your...
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This catheter-guided single chip may someday provide 3-D imaging from within...
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technolgy, Atlanta, Georgia and Electronics Engineering Department, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey, developed this tiny chip (approximately 1.5 mm) on a...
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Valkee HumanCharger light therapy LED headset review
I don’t travel across time zones that often and I don’t have Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) issues that some people get during the dreary winter months. But what I do deal with is a slight sleep...
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