What if you could take insulin without a needle?
From The Verge - Injection-free vaccination developed
Researchers have proved that "injection-free" vaccines are an effective tool in the fight against diseases. The team, based in King's College London and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, used dried sugar to create a microneedle array — a tiny disc that only lightly perforates the skin.
Dr. Klavinskis mentions that this new system may prove useful in delivering insulin.
Consider the possibilities! Of course, they will probably have to make the disc out of something other than sugar.
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Brian (bsc) on -
I don't know how much a difference it will make. After all, jet injectors have been around for quite some time. A current version is something like the AdvantaJet, which costs about $700. So I'm not sure how big this will be given the seemingly utter failure of jet injectors. Although I could see how these could do double duty, you could deliver your insulin and then eat the thing to treat a hypo.
-
Permalink Reply by FHS on -
When it comes to insulin delivery methods, I'm willing to contemplate any method. The variables to weigh, for me, are performance of the insulin versus PITA to use. For the pump versus MDI, both variables are completely circumstancial but the pump wins out overall for me bcause the insulin just works better, unit for unit, when delivered via pump.
This "injection free" method would have to do better than a pump in some way, shape, or form. If not, the novelty wouldn't be enough.
Advertisement
REsources
Groups
From the Diabetes Hands Foundation blog...
Congratulations Diabetes Advocates Scholarship Recipients!
The Diabetes Hands Foundation and Diabetes Advocates Program is proud to announce and congratulate the members of DA who were granted scholarships to attend diabetes conferences in 2013! Thanks to a generous grant from Novo Nordisk, in 2013 we were …Continue Reading
La Familia de EsTuDiabetes Sigue Creciendo
El Centro Nacional de Prevención de Enfermedades Crónicas y Promoción de la Salud en el Estados Unidos encontró que a partir de 2002-2009, el 11,8% de los hispanos mayores de 20 años, que viven en los EU, viven con diabetes …Continue Reading
TuDiabetes Team
DHF STAFF
 Manny Hernandez(Co-Founder, Editor, has LADA)
|
DHF VOLUNTEERS
Lead Administrator
 Bradford (has type 1) |
Administrators
 Lorraine (mother of type 1) |
 Marie B (has type 1) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
LIKE us on Facebook
Spread the word
This site complies with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information: verify here.
© 2013 A community of people touched by diabetes, run by the Diabetes Hands Foundation.
