People really should avail themselves of the many text books and areas on the web that you can go to. There are many new concepts, many new medications that are very helpful. In fact, just this week, a new insulin was approved by the FDA, an insulin called Lantus, and it will be a long acting insulin that can be given once a day and may be a big help to many of our patients. Within the next year, we probably will see non-invasive glucose sensors to monitor blood sugar, and one or two new oral medications, and within two years, may well see inhaled insulin come to the market. Things really were fairly quiet in diabetes for many years, and the developments have been moving ahead at warp speed for the past five or six years.
Education is the key.
That was extremely informative. Petit is the Director of the Joslin Center for Diabetes at New Britain General Hospital. All rights reserved.