Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday, December 8 MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). World premiere of The D.A. - Murder One has Howard Duff out to prove that Nurse Diane Baker killed a few husbands and relatives with insulin injections...
...investigator, Nikolai Danilov, left his work on the island of Sakhalin and took a job as a legal-aid consultant in a Leningrad law office. He was arrested and confined in a special insane asylum for political offenders, where he is being "treated" with insulin shock...
...Pill's effect on insulin and carbohydrate (sugar and starch) metabolism is somewhat clearer. In many women, the blood-sugar level goes up, and with it the level of circulating insulin. There is no reason to believe that the Pill causes diabetes, but it may, in some cases, accelerate the onset of the disease. Then again, so does pregnancy...
Obviously, it is the doctor who should guide the patient through the bewildering health-care maze. Yet not enough U.S. doctors today are qualified to fill this role well, and the organization of the profession discourages it. With the discoveries of new and potent "wonder drugs"?insulin, the sulfas and antibiotics, new hormones and vaccines?each succeeding decade after the 1920s should have been a golden age of medicine. But medicine needed the understanding and compassion for the patient that had marked the old-style, unscientific family doctor. The American Medical Association, long the champion of improved medical practice...
Since the pancreas manufactures insulin essential for the utilization of sugar and other carbohydrates, the patients most likely to need a transplanted pancreas are victims of the severe juvenile form of diabetes. The pancreas, said Minneapolis' Dr. Richard C. Lillehei, is so inaccessible that it is the only major organ that is harder to get out of the donor than to put into the recipient. He has made three grafts of an entire pancreas, with the patient surviving 41 months in the most successful case. Be cause all three died of infection rather than rejection of the graft, Lillehei...