Promoting Public Health: New, inexpensive paper-based diabetes test ideal for developing countries

Promoting Public Health: New, inexpensive paper-based diabetes test ideal for developing countries

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Today’s development is an inexpensive and easy-to-use urine test for Type 2 diabetes ideally suited for rural India, China and other areas of the world where poverty limits the availability of health care. The report describing the paper-based device, whi
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vor 3 Monaten
Today’s development is an inexpensive and easy-to-use urine test
for Type 2 diabetes ideally suited for rural India, China and other
areas of the world where poverty limits the availability of health
care. The report describing the paper-based device, which also
could be adapted for the diagnosis and monitoring of other
conditions and the environment, appears in ACS’ journal Analytical
Chemistry.
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