
TheraSense, Inc. announced it has received FDA clearance to market the FreeStyle Tracker Diabetes Management System, a glucose monitoring system that is integrated into a personal digital assistant (PDA). Available for use with the Handspring Visor PDA, the new diabetes monitoring and management tool enables patients to test for glucose levels and get a read-out on the PDA screen, graph and chart the results over time, review carbohydrate food lists to track their food intake, create reminders about testing or dietary choices, and more. For doctors, the FreeStyle Tracker System provides a time stamped progression of the patient’s glucose levels as well as patient-entered events and data that affect their diabetic health to make better diagnoses and recommendations for the patient’s diabetes care.