A new survey of people with diabetes shows that we consider blood glucose testing to be one of the least challenging aspect of managing it. Maybe that’s because we don’t know when to test and what to do with the results.
LifeScan, the Johnson & Johnson company that makes the One Touch series of blood glucose meters, commissioned the research firm Newman-Stein-Friedman to ask 500 adults with diabetes about how they manage it. LifeScan just released the results of the survey, which the...
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