After doing hundreds of finger sticks to manage gestational diabetes during my first pregnancy, I get why so many doctors say the best glucose monitor is one that monitors glucose continuously ...

Updated at 10:20 a.m. ET on June 20, 2025 To hear some of them tell it, the companies selling continuous glucose monitors have stumbled upon a heretofore unknown quirk of human biology.

A continuous glucose monitor is a small device that sticks to your arm. Every few minutes it sends a signal to your phone estimating your blood sugar levels. But can it improve your health?

Continuous glucose monitors are only about the size of a quarter, but the companies that sell them make huge claims about their health benefits: You can “ revolutionize your health,” one company says.

Glucotrack to present on next-generation continuous blood glucose monitoring technology in Innovation Hub Poster presentation to highlight insights on safety and performance data from direct blood ...

This must be stopped. To this end, the companies market the continuous glucose monitor, or CGM, a quarter-size sensor that takes a near-constant measure of the glucose in the fluid between a person’s ...

They lose visceral fat. DOUCLEFF: And she says when you wear the glucose monitor, you log what you eat. This helps people be more aware of how different foods impact their blood sugar. KENNEDY: ...

The idea behind glucose monitoring is that it could help you identify specific meals or meal sizes that produce extreme peaks. Then if you modify the meal, that shift could help you lose weight, ...

The latest innovation is a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), a device previously limited to diabetics. Applying this monitor to the upper arm or stomach provides metabolic insight in real-time via ...

The latest innovation is a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), a device previously limited to diabetics. Applying this monitor to the upper arm or stomach provides metabolic insight in real-time via ...