100 years after insulin was first used, why isn’t NZ funding the latest life-changing diabetes technology?
- Written by: Ben Wheeler, Associate Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology, University of Otago
Abby Lee Harder with her daughter Presley, showing the blood-glucose sensor that helps manage her diabetes.Diabetes NZThis year marks a century since an extraordinary medical breakthrough – the use of insulin to treat diabetes mellitus. Some physicians at the time described the effect of administering this hormone as like witnessing...