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...illness, diagnosed as diabetes, got progressively worse, his parents enlisted the aid of the Christian Science practitioners--not medical doctors--who sat with Ian and led the family in reading hymns. Despite these valiant efforts, Ian died. Medical experts testified during the trial that a routine shot of insulin would have saved Ian's life...
Huggins got into trouble, according to state dental examiners, when, in pursuit of mercury, he went beyond the bounds of dentistry. In some cases he prescribed lithium tablets and ordered potentially dangerous injections of insulin "without clinical justification." One man, who had no amalgam fillings, was allegedly told that his lab reports showed he had "retention toxicity." Huggins denies any wrongdoing and claims that "dentistry is trying to embarrass me for getting this message...
Antoniades' career as a researcher was marked by a number of important discoveries. He was a pioneer in the field of hormone transport and regulation and was the first to recognize as distinct entities two important polypeptides known as insulin-like growth factor (IGF) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF...
...worrisome side effects yet, critics say, does not mean that none will emerge. Leptin, they point out, is a serious drug, not the easy-to-swallow "thin pill" dieters have dreamed of for so long. To do its work, leptin would probably have to be either injected daily, like insulin, or implanted under the skin for the rest of one's life. In the laboratory experiments reported last week, the obese mice started regaining weight as soon as the injections stopped. Even with a boost from something like leptin, cautions Dr. Ahmed Kissebah, an obesity expert at the Medical College...
...Pfizer company and Inhale Therapeutic Systems announced that they are collaborating on a device that will allow diabetes patients to inhale insulin rather than inject the drug. Of the more than 14 million Americans who have diabetes, some 500,000 must take insulin every day. Inhale said it has completed the first phase of clinical trials on the product and that Pfizer expects to start trials on people later this year...