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FDA OKs Glucose-Monitoring Device for Children!
Mar 15 2007, Pooja

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration have given green signal to glucose-monitoring device for children ages 7 to 17 with type 1 diabetes. Since there are more than 175,000 people suffering from the problem who are less than twenty years of age.
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