{"id":1007,"date":"2016-03-24T13:09:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:35:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:35:17","slug":"wearable-patch-uses-micro-needles-inject-drugs-glucose-levels-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wearable-patch-uses-micro-needles-inject-drugs-glucose-levels-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearable Patch Uses Micro-Needles to Inject Drugs When Glucose Levels Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from South Korea\u2019s Institute for Basic Science have created a wearable patch designed for monitoring glucose levels of diabetics.<\/p>\n<p>The wearable patch comes equipped with gold-and-graphene circuitry, in addition to micro needles that inject drugs into the user&#8217;s system as needed when pH, temperature, and glucose levels fluctuate.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially a more high-tech Band-Aid, the device monitors the wearer&#8217;s sweat in order to quickly correct glucose levels automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this will make life much more convenient for those who suffer from diabetes and are constantly having to monitor themselves and self-medicate accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the wearable patch is still in development and will have to undergo extensive medical testing before we see the device become readily available to the public.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from South Korea\u2019s Institute for Basic Science have created a wearable patch designed for monitoring glucose levels of diabetics. The wearable patch comes equipped with gold-and-graphene circuitry, in addition to micro needles that inject drugs into the user&#8217;s system as needed when pH, temperature, and glucose levels fluctuate. Essentially a more high-tech Band-Aid, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[522,520,524,523,521],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}