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Diabetes:
Is This Tattoo Worth a 1,000 Needle Pricks?
UCSD researchers report early results on a tattoo to measure blood sugar.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego believe they have a feasible, noninvasive method for monitoring serum glucose: a temporary tattoo.
In this MedPage Today video interview, Joseph Wang, DSc, and Amay Bandodkar, a PhD candidate, discuss the device, which uses electrical current to draw sodium ions to its electrodes in order to measure piggy-backing blood glucose. They report results of an early study of seven patients and talk about device development and future research.