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2024 15 Jun

  Millions of people could soon wear blood sugar monitoring devices after regulators cleared two new devices for use without a prescription. Is this a step towards better health, or just another data-driven distraction?   Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), which track glucose levels in real time, have long been used by diabetics. Recently, Abbott...Read more

2014 06 Oct

To overcome the limitations of current technology, "citizen hackers" are now finding ways to hack their medical devices and gain access to data that would otherwise not be available to them. NightScout, a system developed by a constellation of software engineers, many of whom have diabetic children, is an open source system that hacks the Dexcom glucose...Read more