The 45th annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) took place in Vienna, Austria, from September 30th to October 2nd The town centre and all places of interest were flooded with the bright red congress-rucksacks. The first main point of interest focused on the possible association between cancer and insulin therapy. The discussion whether insulin analogues could cause cancer had been stirred up in the weeks before the meeting. Edwin Gale, the UK editor of D