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Article: Blood glucose tests meet growing need.(MERCHANDISING/HOME DIAGNOSTICS)
- Article from:
- Chain Drug Review
- Article date:
- August 4, 2008
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NEW YORK -- The growing awareness of the need for blood glucose monitoring and the greater implementation of tight glycemic control protocols are driving sales of this segment of the home diagnostics category, particularly in chain drug stores. And the introduction of continuous glucose monitoring systems exemplifies the trend.
Among marketers of such products is Abbott Diabetes Care, which recently debuted FreeStyle Navigator, a continuous glucose-monitoring system. Available by prescription, FreeStyle Navigator is designed to continually record interstitial fluid glucose levels to facilitate management of the disease.
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