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Researchers at MedStar Research Institute in Washington D.C. hope that a new light machine could replace the traditional diabetes testing method of doing a fasting blood sugar which involves fasting for 12 hours, drinking a sweet glucose solution, and taking a blood test; a process that takes a couple of hours. 

Instead,  the Vera-light scout system would have patients in and out in a flash. It uses fluorescent light to non-invasively measure the effects of high glucose levels in the forearm's connective tissue.                                                                                                                                                                               

It is estimated that 6 million people have undiagnosed diabetes and many of them don't know it for years. When they are finally diagnosed, it's because diabetes complications like blindness or kidney disease have set in.

This painless and quick test should be given to everyone so that an early diagnosis is made, treatment started, and complications avoided.

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At UC Irvine, researchers are working to develop a painless breath test to determine when a patient's blood sugar is high. Dr. Pietro Galassetti and colleagues tested the breath of ten children with type 1 diabetes. They took breath samples while blood sugar levels were high, then continued to gather samples as blood sugar levels dropped in response...MORE

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The first  FDA approved consumer test to evaluate diabetes risk will be marketed exclusively in the United States by Glycemion, Inc. The BIOSAFE Diabetes Risk Assessment is a two-part process comprised of an immediate fasting glucose reading and a mail-in laboratory analysis for hemoglobin A1c, a blood glucose marker for the previous ninety-day period. More......

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