Technology goes hand in hand with modern medicine. Right now, millions of type 1
and type 2 diabetics are utilizing the latest gadgets, communications, and apps
to better their health. But when it comes to our never-ending fight against diabetes,
what future tech is just over the horizon?
Everything that gets the drug into your body is what I would call
pharmaceutical technology. And so it's a formulation, it's a device,
it's an injection needle, the plunger, everything that is involved in putting together the
drug product that you actually use as a patient. But there are a whole bunch of
new technologies being developed, and pharmaceutical technology, lots of new things coming.
People have looked a lot at nasal insulin for example,
buccal insulin, which is under the skin of, basically under your gum.
The newest product in the insulin space is an implantable pump. It's not actually
for insulin, it's for GLP-1, which is a receptor that stimulates the production of insulin.
And this technology is is as simple as simple could be. It's a little
titanium tube, it contains a year's worth of Exenatide, which has a GLP-1 in it, and
it's actually pushed under your skin, and slowly infused over a year-long period.
So a really nice concept. I think it's probably one of the newest, most exciting
things to be coming out in the type 2 diabetes space. Type 1's probably won't
be able to use this but, type 2's certainly will. There's a lot of research going on
all over the world and for new diabetic therapies. China and Japan both are
investing a lot in new diabetes technologies because of the huge
population, particularly China that, a third of their population is is becoming diabetic.
There's also a lot of interest in figuring out: how do we better
diagnose pre-diabetic patients so that we can help them get their system
in order sooner? In that space in particular there's a lot of all of these apps,
and mobile health, and FitBit devices and things like that. Not only are they targeted
at the athletic market, but that's a big place where they they tend to have
utility, is helping people remember to take their medicine everyday, or to go
and walk ten thousand steps every day, or whatever it is. There's a lot of activity
in that space as well. And I was at a diabetes technology meeting probably
ten years ago when the first apps were coming out. And and even at that meeting,
I remember that somebody said to me, "There's already 200 apps!" There must be
2 million now that relate specifically to diabetes. So it's sort of a growing field,
and so new technologies are definitely coming into into the market every day.
I think it's not really, at least from my perspective, I don't think we should be
afraid of that technology.
Now you can see that there's a world of exciting and
helpful diabetes-related technology awaiting us in the near future.
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