1.   An implanted glucose monitor, he said, would finally close the loop, doing all the blood-stabilizing work that is now done by a normal pancreas.

2.   Another continuous glucose monitor has already been approved by the agency for use by doctors.

3.   But researchers and manufacturers have increasingly been developing new ways to minimize the pain from those finger pricks with a growing arsenal of glucose monitors, lasers and lancets.

4.   Cygnus has designed a glucose monitor and a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel has recommended its approval.

5.   Faulkner predicts the company might file its application for federal Food and Drug Administration approval of the consumer version of the glucose monitor sometime this year.

6.   He warns people that if they fill out the warranty cards that they buy with, say, glucose monitors, information about them could be used by marketers.

7.   Later this year, MiniMed is expected to receive government approval to begin marketing the first subcutaneous blood glucose monitor for diabetics.

8.   Several companies have developed prototypes of wrist-based blood glucose monitors for diabetics, but these are still several years away from practical consumer use.

9.   The German company, which manufactures glucose monitors, hopes to work with insulin pump-manufacturer MiniMed and insulin maker Eli Lilly to provide such a product.

10.   MiniMed ultimately hopes to create a continuous glucose monitor that patients would wear to warn of dangerously high or low glucose levels.