Breakthrough diabetes treatment: A skin cream that replaces insulin injections for diabetes

For decades, people living with diabetes have relied on daily injections to manage their blood glucose levels. Although life-saving, insulin needles can be painful, inconvenient, and emotionally exhausting, especially for those who need multiple doses a day. Now, researchers have unveiled a breakthrough that could fundamentally change how insulin is delivered. A new polymer-based formulation shows that a skin cream that replaces insulin injections may no longer be science fiction. Instead, early experiments in animals suggest it could become a viable treatment pathway in the future. A peer-reviewed study published in Endocrine Disorders evaluated transdermal insulin delivery using polymer-insulin complexes and found that the cream-based system significantly lowered blood glucose in di