Home diagnostics: glucose meter and pregnancy test
Diagnóstico doméstico: glucómetro y test de embarazo
- Date
- 1970-1977 · confidence high
- Place
- Ames (Miles Laboratories), Elkhart, Indiana, United States (glucose meter, 1970); Warner-Chilcott, New York (e.p.t., 1977)
- Credited to
- Anton Clemens (Ames Reflectance Meter); Margaret Crane (design of the home pregnancy test, 1967); Organon
- People
- 👤 Margaret Crane1941–
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
First devices to bring laboratory tests into the home: measuring blood glucose from a drop and detecting the pregnancy hormone in urine. They gave patients control over their own diagnosis.
What it led to
- Diabetes self-monitoring and continuous glucose sensors
- Reproductive autonomy and diagnostic privacy
- Rapid antigen tests (HIV, COVID-19)
Built on
- Monoclonal antibodies (hybridoma technique)1975
- test strips
- monoclonal antibodies (later tests)
- LED and photodetector
Made possible
- continuous glucose monitor
- COVID-19 antigen test
- artificial pancreas