David Beran: the battle for 100% access to insulin

Type 1 diabetes had a major scientific breakthrough in 1921, when Frederick Banting and Charles H Best discovered the hormone insulin in pancreatic extracts of dogs. In 1922, the first injection of insulin given to a human being saw the prognosis for type 1 diabetes change from a death sentence to a condition that could be managed. So why, nearly a century later, is access to insulin still a global health problem? David Beran (University of...