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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A KILDARE scientist has helped to develop a ground-breaking new treatment for diabetes that could mean the end of insulin needles and pumps.
The insulin patch has been developed by Kildare Town man Gerald Fitzgibbon, a chemist with Magnetar Medical Devices at Trinity Technology and Enterprise Centre in Dublin.
?It is difficult to deliver insulin across the skin,? he told the Leinster Leader, explaining that the patch uses a small electrical current to allow the insulin to pass through.
Mr Fitzgibbon has been working on developing the patch for nearly 20 years, alongside John Corish and Kevin Paterson, who is also originally from Kildare Town.
The new technology is similar to that of the nicotine patch used by people who are trying to give up smoking. The patch can be worn on the arm or abdomen. The original patent of the nicotine patch is held by Mr Corish.
http://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/scientist-creates-insulin-patch-1-4136450
The insulin patch has been developed by Kildare Town man Gerald Fitzgibbon, a chemist with Magnetar Medical Devices at Trinity Technology and Enterprise Centre in Dublin.
?It is difficult to deliver insulin across the skin,? he told the Leinster Leader, explaining that the patch uses a small electrical current to allow the insulin to pass through.
Mr Fitzgibbon has been working on developing the patch for nearly 20 years, alongside John Corish and Kevin Paterson, who is also originally from Kildare Town.
The new technology is similar to that of the nicotine patch used by people who are trying to give up smoking. The patch can be worn on the arm or abdomen. The original patent of the nicotine patch is held by Mr Corish.
http://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/scientist-creates-insulin-patch-1-4136450
