"Our
age of anxiety is in great part due to the result of trying to do
today's jobs with yesterday's tools." Diabetes is a global epidemic. More than 150 million people are affected worldwide, and that number is expected to double by 2025. In the U.S., more than 16 million have diabetes, and The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that one in three Americans born in 2000 will contract the disease. As any parent of a diabetic child will tell you, finding a non-invasive system to measure glucose levels is a top priority. That’s why the GlucoScope™ Monitor is being designed and developed by Visual Pathways. It’s intended to be a portable, non-invasive, hand-held device that diabetics look into like a small pair of binoculars and activate with the press of a button. In a few seconds the blood glucose concentration will be displayed. On December 28, 2004 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded VPI U.S. patent 6,836,337 covering the GlucoScope™ Monitor. International patents covering the GlucoScope™ Monitor are pending. The GlucoScope Monitor is currently in the research and development stage.
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