Diabetics Say Good Bye to Painful Insulin Injections

Abstract

A systematic review concluded that inhaled insulin “appears to be as effective, but no better than injected short-acting insulin. But the cost is so much more that it is unlikely to be cost-effective. The inventions did not stop there, following insulin inhalers, the first “smart insulin patch was created by researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Though it has thus far only been tested in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes. According to the paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The painless insulin patch has been shown to detect increases in blood sugar levels and secrete doses of insulin into the bloodstream whenever needed. The patch was able to regulate the insulin levels of diabetic mice for nine hours straight.