Anyone who has read an account of Banting and Best’s discovery of insulin will know that they worked their guts out to come up with a cure for us diabetic hoards. Many dogs gave their lives for diabetic research – having their pancreases ligated allowing their pancreases to atrophy – leading to their untimely and… Read More »
I’m currently reading Michael Bliss’s excellent book “The Discovery of Insulin” (a full review coming soon, book fans!) which is a genuinely fascinating and sometimes thrilling account of insulin’s discovery and its path to mass-production. As someone with Type One it’s been very interesting and occasionally thoughtful look at the major breakthrough insulin undoubtedly was.… Read More »
When I was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 4 in 1983 you put urine in a test tube and added some chemicals to make it change colour so you could get a rough idea of how much sugar was in your body. Blood testing strips were a huge step forward. In 1989, at… Read More »