A FUTURE WITHOUT INSULIN INJECTIONS? NEW DIABETES THERAPY SHOWS PROMISE

For more than a century, insulin has kept millions of people with diabetes alive - but at a painful cost. Needles, injections, pinpricks, and the daily dread that comes with them have felt like an unavoidable part of the disease. Now, scientists in China believe that era may finally be nearing its end.

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In a series of striking new experiments, a research team from Zhejiang University has developed a way to deliver insulin through the skin - not with a patch, not with a microneedle, but as a simple topical treatment. Just rub it on. Wait. And watch blood sugar levels fall smoothly. It's the kind of breakthrough that has long been considered impossible.