{"id":754196,"date":"2023-04-25T12:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T16:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=754196"},"modified":"2023-04-25T12:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T16:37:54","slug":"say-ahhh-this-ecofriendly-tongue-depressor-checks-vitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=754196","title":{"rendered":"Say &#039;ahhh&#039;: This ecofriendly tongue depressor checks vitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors often use tongue depressors when peering in a patient&#8217;s mouth and throat. But what if that flat wooden spatula could actively evaluate the patient&#8217;s health? That&#8217;s the premise of an ecofriendly disposable sensor, reported in  Analytical Chemistry, that can check levels of glucose and other biomarkers in saliva. Researchers say the easy-to-produce device could someday help doctors assess a range of conditions.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-04-ahhh-ecofriendly-tongue-depressor-vitals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Say &#8216;ahhh&#8217;: This ecofriendly tongue depressor checks vitals<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors often use tongue depressors when peering in a patient&#8217;s mouth and throat. But what if that flat wooden spatula could actively evaluate the patient&#8217;s health? That&#8217;s the premise of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}