{"id":104233,"date":"2020-03-24T21:43:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T04:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/israelis-invent-first-pill-to-treat-diabetes-without-insulin-shots"},"modified":"2020-03-24T21:43:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T04:43:01","slug":"israelis-invent-first-pill-to-treat-diabetes-without-insulin-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/israelis-invent-first-pill-to-treat-diabetes-without-insulin-shots","title":{"rendered":"Israelis Invent First Pill to Treat Diabetes Without Insulin Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israelis-invent-first-pill-to-treat-diabetes-without-insulin-shots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pill passed second-stage testing with impressive results, placing it on the fast-track for commercial availability, Oramed announced last week, which is music to the ears of the nearly half a billion people worldwide who suffer from diabetes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em><strong>An oral insulin capsule passed second stage testing for efficacy and safety, paving the way to diabetes treatments without shots.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By United with Israel Staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>People who suffer from diabetes frequently require insulin shots, causing pain, inconvenience, and visible scars that do not heal. To address this pressing healthcare issue, a company based in Israel developed the first oral insulin capsule, called ORMD-0801, providing diabetes treatment without the need for shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pill passed second-stage testing with impressive results, placing it on the fast-track for commercial availability, Oramed announced last week, which is music to the ears of the nearly half a billion people worldwide who suffer from diabetes. An oral insulin capsule passed second stage testing for efficacy and safety, paving the way to diabetes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}