glucowatch造句

• But while perhaps more socially acceptable, the Glucowatch has had development problems, and Becton Dickinson & Co . last year pulled out of an agreement to market the device.
• In December, the Food and Drug Administration recommended approval for the GlucoWatch Monitor, which collects fluid from the surface of the skin to measure the amount of sugar in the blood.
• The GlucoWatch uses a small electrical current that takes fluid samples from the skin every 20 minutes and sounds an alarm when the wearer's glucose levels get dangerously high or low.
• The GlucoWatch is a good first step toward diabetics'ultimate goal of continual, painless glucose monitoring, said Dr . Christopher Saudek, president-elect of the American Diabetes Association.
• The GlucoWatch is not perfect, so it doesn't replace those painful finger-prick blood tests that diabetics must do to check their blood sugar levels, the FDA warned.
• The GlucoWatch won't completely replace those finger-prick blood tests that diabetics perform because it's not perfect, sometimes giving erroneous readings, the Food and Drug Administration warned.
• The GlucoWatch, which was developed by Cygnus of Redwood City, Calif ., sits on top of a disposable gel disc that contains the same enzyme used to measure glucose levels in home monitors.
• Called the GlucoWatch, the $ 300 device, which is close to achieving final approval by the U . S . Food and Drug Administration, could be in production by the end of this year.
• But not only has Cygnus not yet studied the GlucoWatch in children, doctors simply don't know if glucose measured in skin cell fluid correlates to blood measurements in children like it does in adults.
• Tuesday, the FDA said GlucoWatch maker Cygnus Inc . proved the device works in diabetic children ages 7 to 17, too, and allowed the company to begin marketing the watch for pediatricians to prescribe.