1. And if patients are diabetic, he can better persuade them to take insulin. 2. Both groups may benefit from the transplants, but juvenile diabetics are the prime target because they are most dependent on taking insulin. 3. But many wind up taking insulin late in the course of the disease. 4. Companies including Inhale Therapeutic Systems and Pfizer Inc. are working on another way to take insulin -- through an inhaler, much like asthma medication. 5. DeSormier and hundreds of other people with diabetes in the United States and abroad are participating in studies to test ways of taking insulin without needles. 6. Doctors in Britain are increasingly worried by anecdotal reports that athletes are taking insulin, the lifesaving drug used by many diabetics. 7. Even though he now has to take insulin as often as eight times a day, Hall has achieved some remarkable feats. 8. If you were diabetic would you take insulin? 9. Instead of taking insulin, Landanno has to continue to take immunosupression drugs to prevent his immune system from rejecting his transplanted kidney and pancreas. 10. Medical-device makers, meanwhile, hope to weigh in eventually with easier methods for diabetics to monitor their blood sugar levels and to take insulin. |