After working with pancreatic cells and understand their operation, two doctors found the key to understanding diabetes: a hormone called insulin which. This discovery earned them the Nobel Prize while he gave to medical science the most important advance in diabetes. As a result, life expectancy for patients increased.
From that moment, how we think and treat diabetes changed, it was found that administering certain amount of this substance by injection, patients controlled their condition and improving their quality of life, delaying the onset of complications. (more…)