FreeStyle Libre: Painless flash glucose monitoring system now in PH
PHOTO FROM FREESTYLE LIBRE Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Limited mobility has made diabetes care more challenging in the Philippines. In 2018, more than 5 million people were diagnosed with diabetes in the country, according to the Western Pacific Region of the International Diabetes Federation. As a chronic disease, diabetes entails close monitoring and sound management. But daily diabetes monitoring is not easy. The traditional blood glucose monitoring method has been tedious, requiring the painful fingersticks to draw a drop of blood and with the bulky conventional glucose monitoring...