Hope for combating diabetes

There has been an important advancement in the fight against type 1 diabetes, which affects around 200,000 people in England.

Scientists in Cambridge have found that levels of blood sugar can be regulated by using an “artificial pancreas”. This delivers insulin when it is needed, to stop blood sugar dropping to dangerously low levels.

The study – carried out by the Lancet – has increased hopes that type 1 diabetes can be controlled effectively, without having to monitor blood sugar manually and administer insulin injections.

This could be be a highly important to combating diabetes in children, although the artificial pancreas is currently operational only in hospitals.