Saturday 27 October 2012

Full-body Scanners At Airports Can Damage Diabetes Devices

Insulin pumps or continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device may be damaged when diabetics wearing them go through a full-body scan at an airport, caution experts. The risk to these sensitive devices posed by scanners and the low-pressure conditions on airplanes were the focus of a report published in the journal Diabetes Technology (and) Therapeutics. Authors Andrew Cornish and H. Peter Chase of University of Colorado, Denver, caution that the motor of ...

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