Diabetes and insulin: better way than injection for diabetics to administer insulin
January 12, 2014 Leave a comment
Diabetes and insulin: better way than injection for diabetics to administer insulin
Jan 11th 2014 | From the print edition
FACED with death, most people will do almost anything to stay alive. That is why many millions around the world either stick needles in themselves at frequent intervals to inject a hormone called insulin, or wear a device called an insulin pump that does the same thing automatically through a catheter that penetrates their skin. A body’s failure to make insulin, which regulates how cells burn glucose, their primary fuel, causes the symptoms doctors call type-1 diabetes. Until the discovery of insulin, in the 1920s, this form of diabetes was a death sentence. Read more of this post
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