Word: insulin
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...ironic that such a famed doctor as Minot should have been a life-long sufferer from diabetes, the disease he finally died of. He contracted the illness soon after his graduation from Harvard Medical School in 1912 and became one of the first Boston patients to receive regular insulin treatments...
...Briant Decker of the Hygiene Department pronounced Harbury dead after all measures, including insulin injections, had been exhausted...
...biggest manhunts in U.S. history was begun this week by the American Diabetes Association: a search for 1,000,000 Americans who may have diabetes and don't know it. Prompt detection, diet and possibly insulin injections can stave off the severer phases of the disease...
Doctors are always on the alert, Somogyi points out, for "insulin shock"-severe symptoms of trembling, sweating, convulsions and even coma-which follow when overdoses of insulin reduce the sugar content of the blood drastically. But, he argues, there may actually be a serious blood-sugar deficiency before these dramatic symptoms occur. Then the body's glandular forces go to work, building up the blood sugar. In such circumstances they overdo the job: soon, there is again too much sugar in the blood, and many physicians are likely to order more insulin -thus completing the vicious circle...
...Children, unlike adults, nearly always need insulin at first. But even they need less than 20 units a day, Somogyi holds...