This is the 100 year anniversary of the development of insulin treatment for diabetes. Based on earlier research beginning in the late 1800s the hormone insulin was discovered but it took a young surgeon names Frederick Bonning with his assistant Charles Best to separate insulin from a dog’s pancreas. They used the insulin to prolong the life of a dog with diabetes. Later colleagues Collip and NacLeod retained insulin from the pancreas of cattle. In January 1922 a fourteen year old boy, Leonard Thompson who was dying from diabetes was treated with insulin and survived. In 1923 Banting and Mac Leod received the Nobel Prize in Medicine which they shared with Best and Collip. Shortly after this Eli Lilly began to mass produce insulin. In 1978 synthetic “human” insulin was developed which Lilly introduced as Humulin. Insulin has continued to develop, so that diabetes is no longer a death sentence for the 10.5 percent of the U.S. population which diabetes. This serious disease can now be controlled and life prolonged. Worldwide diabetes affect 8.5 percent of people according to the World Health Organization. In 2019 that percentage represented an estimated 34.2 million people in the U.S. How fortunate we are that there is help for diabetes with both insulin and oral medications. It is gift from science and medicine for which we praise God.