Blood Glucose Monitoring - Glucose Sensing Bio-implants

Glucose Sensing Bio-implants

Longer term solutions to continuous monitoring, not yet available but under development, use a long-lasting bio-implant. These systems promise to ease the burden of blood glucose monitoring for their users, but at the trade off of a minor surgical implantation of the sensor that lasts from one year to more than five years depending on the product selected.

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