Soon we will be able to test our A1C at home again. Right now if you want to track your A1C, you will need to go to your doctor’s office or a lab that your doctor sends you to or mail in one of the test kits.
Until the end of last year Metrika Inc. in Sunnyvale, California, made a home A1C meter. They sold the device as the A1CNow and as the ChoiceDM A1C that they made for Bristol Myers.
The A1CNow was a single-test system. After testing your A1C once, you threw the device away. This...
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