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Highly Anticipated No-Code Glucose Meter Available Exclusively at Diabetic Care Services and Diabetic Express

CLEVELAND – February 4, 2009 – Diabetic Care Services and Diabetic Express, leading mail order companies that provide diabetic supplies and prescriptions, are the first to offer WaveSense JazzTM in the United States. The new product is a no-code meter from AgaMatrix, Inc. In addition to featuring one of the largest backlit digits for easy reading, WaveSense Jazz is one of the first meters to provide a score for a user’s glycemic variability.

Glycemic variability is a tool used to show how frequently blood sugar changes over a period of time and how intense these fluctuations are. Glycemic variability may also allow for an end-user and his or her health care professional to better analyze the effect of high and low readings over specific days, weeks or months.

"Since being FDA approved in late 2007, WaveSense Jazz has been a highly anticipated blood glucose meter because no coding is required, and it features accuracy-enhancing technology and the ability to customize mealtime tagging," said Marc Wolf, CEO of Care Services. "Diabetic Care Services is pleased to be the exclusive U.S. distributor of the WaveSense Jazz and offer this technologically advanced meter that helps diabetic patients improve self-management."

WaveSense Jazz has numerous features designed to help users gain tighter control:

  • Automatic mealtime tagging: Smart before and after meal tagging (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and nighttime) allows the patient to change the tag based on their personal schedule to provide more useful information when analyzing glucose readings.
  • Positive feedback feature: Alerts the user if their blood glucose result is within their pre- and post- meal target range to encourage tighter control. The ranges can be easily changed by the user or his/her health care professional.
  • Compliance tracker feature: Displays the average number of tests/day
  • Extensive memory: 1,865 memories for an average of 5 times/day for one year

WaveSense Jazz is available exclusively at www.diabeticcareservices.com for patients with insurance and at www.diabeticexpress.com for patients without insurance and is free with the purchase of 100 test strips or more.

About AgaMatrix
AgaMatrix is a technology company headquartered in Salem, New Hampshire that develops and manufactures next generation blood glucose monitoring (BGM) products for the diabetes market. The company's proprietary WaveSense biosensor technologies enable significantly higher accuracy glucose sensing. Current products include a line of meter and strip systems and a blood glucose data management software system.

About Care Services, Inc.
Care Services, Inc. (Eastlake, OH), founded in 1989, serves the health and lifestyle needs of consumers nationwide through two leading mail order businesses – Diabetic Care Services and Diabetic Express. Through its two divisions, Care Services provides doorstep delivery of durable medical equipment and prescription medications to customers with diabetes, as well as to medical facilities and research organizations specializing in the care and cure of this disease. For more information visit www.diabeticcareservices.com or www.diabeticexpress.com or call 800.633.7167 or 800.338.4656.

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