One of those unavoidable supplies is diabetic test strips. But what happens when you have too many unused test strips on hand? Maybe your doctor changed your prescription, you received a large batch ...

Medicare covers blood sugar (glucose) test strips for people with diabetes under Part B (medical insurance) if you get them from a Medicare-approved supplier. You may need to meet certain criteria.

One of the most prevalent misconceptions is that selling diabetes supplies, such as test strips, is always illegal. However, the legality depends on a few factors. In most cases, selling ...

The package inserts for glucose dehydrogenase test strips and Octagam describe this problem, but the information was overlooked. To test the patient's blood, nurses were using an Accu-Chek system ...

The Food and Drug Administration is warning patients with diabetes about a recall of up to 62 million glucose test strips that can incorrectly show abnormally high blood sugar readings. Nova ...

Two more Florida men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud for their role in a diversion scheme involving ...

Testing your blood sugar is easy, even if you haven't done it before. You'll need the following things-- the test strips and the meter, lancing device and the lancet, bandages, alcohol swabs ...

As you might expect, glucose test strips are highly proprietary, tightly regulated, and very expensive. But the chemistry that makes them work is pretty simple, which led [Markus Bindhammer] to ...

For the last year, it’s been legal in Missouri to use a tool that tests other drugs for the presence of fentanyl, a very ...

The URYXXON® 500 is an automatic reader for URYXXON® Stick 10 urine test strips ... kidney diseases or diabetes. The device eliminates the subjectivity of visual strip evaluation and minimizes ...

The blood is placed on an expensive, disposable test strip that has already been placed in a slot on the glucometer. After ...

With pre-diabetes, the cells of the body don’t respond to insulin, resulting in the accumulation of glucose to high levels in the bloodstream.