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Thursday July 5 7:41 AM ET
Israeli Researchers Deliver Insulin Via Pill
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli hospital has become the first to orally
deliver insulin to the bloodstream of healthy humans, an advance researchers
said on Thursday may soon improve the lives of 135 million diabetics
worldwide.Jerusalem's Hadassah University Hospital said insulin showed up in
the liver and bloodstream of 12 non-diabetic volunteers within 30 minutes of
ingesting the new pill. Currently, diabetics have to inject insulin into the
bloodstream with a needle.The new pill was developed by Emisphere
Technologies, Inc., a New York biopharmaceutical company. It said in a
statement that clinical trials had started on June 25 in Israel and the
Netherlands.Researchers plan to begin tests on adult diabetics, but no date
has been set, the company statement said.``That is the majority of people who
suffer from diabetes,'' Dr. Miriam Kidron, a diabetes researcher at the
hospital, told Reuters. ``As we get older, more people get the
disease.''Diabetes occurs when the body fails to produce and absorb enough
insulin, a hormone that controls the passage of sugar from blood. It usually
hits middle-aged and overweight people and can also be hereditary.Oral drugs
have been developed to prevent insulin resistance among these patients, but
about one-third must still inject insulin on a regular basis, Kidron
said.``Their diabetes will continue to be much better if they can get the
insulin through the pill,'' Kidron added.If more trials are approved by the
Israeli Health Ministry, the pill will also be tested on people suffering
from juvenile-onset diabetes, a much more serious form of the disease, which
can at times be fatal.Juvenile diabetes accounts for 10 percent of all
patients and they must follow a strict regime of regular insulin injections,
Kidron said.Shares of Emisphere Technologies closed up 0.07 percent on
Tuesday at $25.05.
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