| CONTENTS | 
| Introductory Comment  Guy Furness  | 
| Altea Therapeutics transdermal PassPort™ System: freedom from insulin injections for superior diabetes management Yogi R Patel Altea Therapeutics  | 
| The next generation insulin therapy David Brandt Anders Boss Mannkind Corporation  | 
| Company Profile Ypsomed  | 
| Oral-Lyn needle-free buccal delivery of insulin: a product whose time is now  Gerald Bernstein Generex Biotechnology  |