  Diabetes is one of the most debilitating and costly diseases currently
plaguing humanity. It is a leading cause of death and dismemberment in the
world, and we know how to treat it. Accurate, continuous monitoring and control
of blood glucose levels via insulin treatments are widely known to mitigate the
majority of detrimental effects caused by the disease. The primary limitation
of continuous glucose monitoring is patient non-compliance due to the
unpleasant nature of "finger-stick" testing methods. This limitation can be
largely, or even completely, removed by non-invasive testing methods. In this
report, we demonstrate the vibrational overtone circular dichroism properties
of glucose and analyze its use as a method of non-invasive glucose monitoring,
capable of assuaging this trillion dollar scourge.
