OneTouch® UltraMini™ Blood Glucose Meter

The first glucose testing in laboratories was a procedure known as the folin wu test. This test was cumbersome for even the confines of a testing laboratory.  It involved boiling in a special tube with chemicals in it, setting up standards and graphs so that the results could be calculated, and producing a protein free filtrate to be tested. This type of testing improved quickly over the years.  This type of testing is recorded in scientific papers back as far as 1955.

Diabetes today is of epidemic proportion. Methods to monitor glucose, which is very important to patients management of this disease, have become more accurate and very specific to the glucose molecule of interest. Continue reading »