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Design student aims to break cycle of poor diabetes management

A final-year design student from Brunel University London has come up with a streamlined device which aims to vastly improve patients’ self-management of the disease.

A final-year design student from Brunel University London has come up with a streamlined device which aims to vastly improve patients’ self-management of the disease. Oscar Daws device, Gluco Duo, is “a vastly improved glucose meter” and has also been selected for a prestigious exhibition on London’s South Bank. The meter works by simply opening the cap and pushing on a pad with no need for test strips or a separate finger pricker and a connected insulin pen which works via a custom smartphone app. Diabetes is a rapidly growing global health crisis with the number of confirmed cases doubling

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