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Creation Date
1979
Description
Drs. Robert Sherwin, William Tamborlane, and their colleagues were conducting studies in 1979, on the best way to deliver insulin to diabetic children. They discovered that giving small amounts with larger doses at meals worked better than giving one large dose. Another Yale doctor was using a portable pump to administer medicine to children for another reason, when the DRs. realized that this idea would be great for administering to their diabetic patients. The pump was successfully tested with seven children. That insulin pump has evolved but 350, 000 diabetic patients per year are using some form of it.
(https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/clinicaltrials/learnmore/tradition/insulin/).
