To Your Health: Diabetes: Past, Present and Future

[Northerner]

In 1920, a Canadian surgeon by the name of Dr. Frederick Banting decided to test a theory. He believed that diabetes might be related to the function of the pancreas. Two years later, Banting and his assistant tested their insulin extract on their first human subject, a 14-year-old boy with severe diabetes who was close to death. The boy responded positively to the insulin treatments, as did other volunteers. Through further researcher, Banting found that adjusting blood glucose levels helped the insulin work more effectively. For the first time in history, doctors had a treatment for diabetes, and in 1923 Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In 1924, Scripps Metabolic Clinic in downtown La Jolla became one of the first sites on the West Coast to offer insulin therapy.

http://www.ranchosantafereview.com/2012/10/31/to-your-health-diabetes-past-present-and-future/

In the 1970s, insulin pumps were cumbersome devices the size of a videotape player that people carried on like backpacks. Today, they are the size of a small mobile phone and disposable? patients simply toss them when they are empty.

Eh? Can't see many people willing to 'toss' a ?3,000 pump when it's empty! 😱