Until now, the improvements in the blood glucose meters that all of us who have diabetes use have been tiny steps forward. In the 40 years since the Ames Reflectance Meter -- our first blood glucose meter -- came on the market, these little changes have added up to much greater convenience. And now a new meter is here that takes us so much further that I'm having a hard time to decide which improvements I should write about.
Fittingly, this meter comes from Bayer Diabetes Care. Bayer is one of...
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