Word: insulin
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...physical methods of repression. One dissenter, Cybernetics Specialist Leonid Plyushch, now living in Paris, testified that he was kept in the Dnepropetrovsk Special Hospital for 30 months after getting a spurious diagnosis of "torpid schizophrenia" with "reform-making illusions." Plyushch saw beatings applied to other patients. He himself received insulin and heavy doses of sulfur which caused "discomfort so intense that all you could do was endlessly search for a new position...
Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, who will be one of the researchers, said yesterday the research could lead to the synthesis of such human hormones as insulin, which is presently taken from cows and pigs...
...Mass General Hospital, insulin injections are used to stimulate an appetite in anorexics. Dr. George Tully, an endocrinologist explains, "the insulin induces hypoglycemia. This makes the patient feel hungry and gives them a sweaty, mild headache which only eating can relieve." Ideally, a normal appetite will develop in the patient and she will not just eat to avoid the insulin's side effects. The insulin treatment is accompanied by psychiatric care...
...physician. After an examination, Lukash promptly ordered the Interior Secretary into Bethesda Naval Medical Center. From there last week came word that Hathaway was suffering from exhaustion and "reactive depression" (for which psychiatric care has been prescribed). He also has a mild case of diabetes, which will require no insulin, only dietary control...
...heart disease. The FDA's action stemmed from a five-year series of large-scale studies that found that the death rate from heart disease was twice as high among patients on oral antidi-abetics as it was among patients whose conditions were being controlled by injectable insulin. Still, the debate about the drugs continues. Many physicians, among them several leading specialists on diabetes, challenge both the methods and conclusions of the studies, the most recent of which was published in the American Medical Association's Journal earlier this year...