Word: insulin
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...Family members were concerned that Numan, who is 62 and a diabetic in constant need of insulin, was in precarious health and would require medical attention that he could not get while hiding from US forces. So intermediaries approached the US government. At first, family members tried to find out what crimes Numan might be charged with and whether he could avoid being tried by an Iraqi court. But the US has made clear it will not offer guarantees to anyone, although US operatives do offer private assurances that prisoners will be treated properly and receive medical attention...
...negotiations wore on and the pressure mounted, an increasingly desperate Numan apparently tried to take his own life by injecting himself with insulin, but was prevented from doing so by his son. At another point within the last week, the family reportedly placed a public notice in a Baghdad newspaper announcing that Numan had died of a heart attack and that his sister had held a wake at her house in Baghdad...
...Thursday morning, they first surrounded the houses of Numan's brother and son-in-law in the posh Baghdad neighborhood of Yarmuk. Numan wasn't at either address, but family members eventually led US forces to the nearby house of Numan's sister, where the fugitive was hiding. Carrying insulin, a few clothes and packs of Kent cigarettes, Numan was led away with his brother and son-in-law, both of whom have since been released...
...time wining and dining doctors, hoping they would prescribe his firm's drugs. He made as much as $67,000 a year, and constantly accompanied clients to operas and hockey games. "But you have no life," he says. "You live and die by how many vials of insulin you sell that month. They expected you to schmooze 24-7." On a whim, he took a class in massage therapy. Men make up less than 20% of the profession, but at the Pinellas Park school Patrizio attended, a third of those enrolled were men. In his first year he earned only...
...Food and Drug Administration approves the first genetically engineered drug, a form of insulin produced by bacteria...