1.   Investigators and subjects were blinded to insulin type and the insulins were given in random order.

2.   Is there any task allocation at all - for example, do only one or two nurses give the insulin?

3.   No responsible clinician would refuse to give insulin to a juvenile diabetic.

4.   Doctors should just give insulin to such children and, if needed, perform a procedure to draw water off the brain, they said.

5.   Some doctors were already giving insulin to patients in the hope of preventing it.