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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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FDA Approves New Smartphone App for Insulin Delivery

A patient receives a test for diabetes during the Care Harbor LA free medical clinic in Los Angeles, on September 11, 2014. Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

Smartphones interfere in everything in our life today, and mobile apps have become able to perform things that we never imagined before. Among these are healthcare and therapeutics, as many apps available in app stores are aimed at easing patients’ lives and help them face their diseases and cope with them.

Lately, a new feature hit smartphone: the ability to deliver insulin. According to USA Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the first app for iPhone and Android devices capable of giving diabetes patients doses of insulin.

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