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...more they are inclined to revise old theories about it and the accepted methods of treatment. In recent weeks, research physicians have come closer to a complete turnabout in their thinking. They now believe that the commonest form of diabetes, far from representing a simple shortage of the hormone insulin, is a much more complex and still mystifying disorder. They have discovered a striking paradox: the great majority of adult patients have higher-than-average levels of insulin activity in their blood at the very time that they have excess blood sugar...
There are actually two basic forms of diabetes. The kind that strikes in childhood, usually before age 15 or even in the next decade, results from a failure of the pancreas* to produce enough insulin. For this juvenile or unstable form of diabetes, the only remedy seems to be the obvious one: supply the missing insulin by injection. In some cases, insulin dosage can be reduced with the aid of one of the recently developed oral drugs. Despite its relative infrequency, it is mainly the juvenile form that makes diabetes rank as the eighth leading cause of death...
Beer and Miss Carden had been in training for a week before the contest. They ate large amounts of starches and sugar to stimulate their pancreases to produce excess insulin, which facilitates digestion. Yesterday morning they consumed nothing but coffee and tea supersaturated with sugar...
...push the product out of the can) that are safe for most foods or drugs. However, the industry has had trouble developing different ways of combining container, valve and propellant at a reasonable cost. There will soon be radioactive inhalants for lung cancer patients, inhalant vaccines, allergens, and aerosol insulin to replace injections...
Early diagnosis means that insulin or other treatment may help prevent such complications as hypertension, calcified arteries, and blindness. And the DAC test, developed by Drs. Gerald Kent and Jack Leonards of Western Reserve University, detects the disease even before sugar begins to appear in the urine-where it is now picked up by conventional testing...