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Celebrating 90 years of insulin
This year celebrates 90 years since insulin was first given to a type 1 diabetic: before then the only treatment for patients was a strict starvation diet which prolonged lives by not more than a year in teenagers and much less in younger children. Often these children died from malnutrion as well as complications from […]
Posted: January 18th, 2012 under 42, Diabetes.
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