Device Week, 2 June 2022 – Robot Blood Draws? Diabetes Upheavals

In this FINAL edition of Device Week, Medtech Insight’s Barnaby Pickering discusses recent developments in the highly competitive continuous glucose monitoring space and editor Marion Webb explains the application of robotics to common blood sampling.

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