Western Maricopa Education Center (West-MEC) RMA-AMT Module 2 Practice Test

Insulin therapy is the discovery that transformed diabetes care by providing a hormone replacement to control blood glucose. In the early 1920s, Banting and Best, with Macleod and Collip, purified insulin from animal pancreases and successfully treated a patient, showing that diabetes could be managed rather than fatal. This breakthrough gave people with type 1 diabetes a life-saving treatment and laid the foundation for ongoing diabetes management. The other options are famous medical breakthroughs in other areas: penicillin for infections, asepsis for preventing contamination during surgery, and vaccination to prevent disease.