Apple Watch glucose monitoring project moves closer to shipping

Apple moved its noninvasive blood sugar monitoring project, which would let diabetics check glucose levels without finger pricks, under Zongjian Chen, an engineer with a reputation for actually shipping products. That personnel move is the whole story. Apple has been working on this for years, and swapping in a results-focused leader reads as a sign the technology cleared some internal hurdle. Still, even optimists say a consumer release is years away, so the 400 million people living with diabetes are not holding their breath.