Abstract

Dr. Helen Free, a past president of the AACC (1990), was recently awarded the nation's highest honor for inventors and engineers. In November 2010, she received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (NMTI) from President Obama at a White House ceremony. Free, along with her late husband Alfred Free, developed the first dip-and-read diagnostic test to monitor glucose concentrations in urine. Marketed as Clinistix by their employer, Miles Laboratories, the test enabled diabetics to conduct …

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