<description>‘Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was a feared disease that led to certain death’. 
Scientists had limited knowledge on what caused type 1 diabetes and how to cure it, as their 
methods of refined diets only prolonged the lifespan of patients briefly before they died.

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‘Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was a feared disease that led to certain death’. 
Scientists had limited knowledge on what caused type 1 diabetes and how to cure it, as their 
methods of refined diets only prolonged the lifespan of patients briefly before they died.



Pumping the Future of Medicine

We dive into a shallow start about the discovery of insulin and the controversial ethics of it, type 1 diabetes and the insulin pump. I briefly interviewed Ryan Lum, a teenager living with Type 1 diabetes, and included some snippets of his medical life through recordings. 

Pumping the future of medicine: An introduction into Insulin pumps.

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