Top Diabetes Companies On The Way To The Artificial Pancreas

The Medical Futurist collected the top diabetes companies aiming to make diabetes management and monitoring as easy as possible.

Diabetes has been around for centuries, if not even for thousands of years. In ancient China, India, or Greece, doctors already described the condition. In India, people discovered that they could use ants to test for diabetes by presenting urine to them. If the ants came to the urine, this was a sign that it contained high sugar levels. They called the condition madhumeha, meaning honey urine. It was not until 1776, however, that Matthew Dobson actually measured the concentration of glucose in the urine of such patients and found it to be increased. From that time on, more than a century passed until the discovery of insulin. In January 1922, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson was the first person to receive an injection of insulin to treat diabetes. He lived another 13 years with the condition – and eventually died of pneumonia.

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