Tablets replace diabetes injections for some children

Tablets are being used in place of multiple insulin injections by doctors in Ireland to treat childhood diabetes.

The drug treatment has been developed by leading diabetes expert Lou Phillipson as a personalised treatment for a specific genetic form of diabetes.

Prof Phillipson, director of University of Chicago Kovler Diabetes Center, is in Dublin to address an international diabetes conference at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland today.