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Consumer Reports: Our tests find affordable strips for blood-glucose meters

Consumer Reports: Our tests find affordable strips for blood-glucose meters

Our tests find affordable strips for blood-glucose meters Nicole Sarrubbo Updated Sep 14, 2012 3:00 PM Giving blood for your job sounds a little extreme, but it’s exactly what our panel of volunteer staffers did for our latest tests of … Read More


Michael Malone: The Sources of the Next American Boom

Michael Malone: The Sources of the Next American Boom

Nanotech, 3-D printing and other innovations point to a coming golden era, if we can unleash the animal spirits of the market. BY MICHAEL S. MALONE Updated July 5, 2012, 7:27 p.m. ET Three years after the recession was declared … Read More


AgaMatrix and Sanofi Announce First Glucose Meter to Directly Connect to the iPhone® and iPod® touch

AgaMatrix and Sanofi Announce First Glucose Meter to Directly Connect to the iPhone® and iPod® touch

Available at Apple® Retail Stores and all Walgreens stores nationwide, online at Apple.com, Walgreens.com and through Diabetic Care Services Salem, New Hampshire – May 14, 2012 – AgaMatrix announced today the commercial availability of the iBGStar® Blood Glucose Monitoring System … Read More


iBGStar turns your iPhone into an FDA-approved glucose meter for $99.95

iBGStar turns your iPhone into an FDA-approved glucose meter for $99.95

By Evan Rodgers on May 6, 2012 03:34 am There are a lot of iPhone accessories out there, but few are FDA-approved: the iBGStar blood glucose meter is now on sale for $99.95. It’s being sold through Apple stores and … Read More


iBGStar Glucometer for iPhone Now Available in U.S.

iBGStar Glucometer for iPhone Now Available in U.S.

by Gene Ostrovsky on May 4, 2012 • 12:57 pm Sanofi has announced that its iBGStar, the first approved blood glucose meter to interface with the iPhone, is now available in the U.S. The device will display glucose readings on … Read More


Monitoring Your Health With Mobile Devices

Monitoring Your Health With Mobile Devices

By PETER WAYNER Published: February 22, 2012 Dr. Eric Topol is only half joking when he says the smartphone is the future of medicine — because most of his patients already seem “surgically connected” to one. But he says in … Read More


iBGStar Blood Glucose Meter for iPhone Now Approved in U.S.

iBGStar Blood Glucose Meter for iPhone Now Approved in U.S.

by Gene Ostrovsky on Dec 9, 2011 • 4:26 pm iBGStar blood glucometer attachment for the iPhone, developed by AgaMatrix and commercialized by Sanofi, has received FDA approval. The iBGStar uses the iPhone as a beautiful visualization tool to keep … Read More


First Look: iPhone Add-on Is a Revolutionary Product for Diabetics

First Look: iPhone Add-on Is a Revolutionary Product for Diabetics

by ALISSA WALKER A NEW WAY TO HELP DIABETICS RECORD AND SHARE CRITICAL HEALTH INFORMATION. Over 17.9 million Americans have diabetes, and they all live with the painful, often thrice-daily process of using needles to check blood sugar. The process … Read More


Sanofi-Aventis debuts iBGStar blood glucose meter for iPhone

Sanofi-Aventis debuts iBGStar blood glucose meter for iPhone

By Donald Melanson posted Sep 21st 2010 10:12PM It’s not the first to announce a blood glucose meter that connects to an iPhone, but Sanofi-Aventis has just rolled out what’s surely the most streamlined solution to date. Unlike the LifeScan … Read More