Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state granted two Harvard-affiliated hospitals permission to conduct long-restricted pancreas transplants, operations which doctors predict will enable thousands of diabetics to produce their own insulin. The Massachussetts General Hospital and the New England Deaconess Hospital, both Harvard affliated, were granted permission to conduct the transplants for one year...
...patient, "friend and family to everyone in town." But last week Dr. John Kraai, 76, of Fairport, N.Y., a Rochester suburb, was under arrest on a charge of second-degree murder. The general practitioner was accused of carrying out a mercy killing by injecting three doses of insulin into the chest of Frederick Wagner, 81, a nursing-home resident with brain-degenerating Alzheimer's disease. Wagner was Kraai's friend as well as his patient. Monroe County Sheriff Andrew P. Meloni said that the doctor was "overwhelmed with emotion at (Wagner's) deteriorating condition." After Kraai was heard to speak...
...four-member defense team began sweating over the Von Bulow case in late 1984. Earlier that year the Rhode Island Supreme Court had reversed the Danish-born aristocrat's 1982 conviction on charges that he twice tried to kill his socialite wife Martha ("Sunny") von Bulow with insulin injections; since 1980 she has lain in a coma from which she is expected not to recover. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz had argued the successful appeal. Now the ball was Puccio...
After performing those feats of damage control, Puccio narrowed his own case to one clear, pointed counterpunch. No crime had been committed, he declared, because Mrs. Von Bulow had never been given any insulin. A series of medical experts backed his contention that there was no firm proof of insulin injection. With much of the circumstantial evidence against Von Bulow in tatters, most lawyers agree that the jury had little choice. But some disparaged Puccio's performance. "What victory?" snorted one former colleague. "Against a prosecutor with little experience and a judge who leaned his way?" Others were more impressed...
...work at 4:30 p.m. After church and brunch on Sunday, they planned to re-examine the testimony of Maria Schrallhammer and Alexander von Auersperg on the whereabouts of a black bag containing a used syringe, as well as that of an expert defense witness concerning the presence of insulin on the needle. While they continued to deliberate, Von Bulow, chain-smoking and chatting with reporters, roamed the mostly deserted hallways of the Providence courthouse...