Word: insulin
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...start up all over again. The Rhode Island Supreme Court last week overturned the conviction of Newport Socialite Claus Von Bülow, the Danish-born playboy convicted in 1982 of twice attempting to murder his heiress wife Martha, an ailing multimillionaire, by injecting her with overdoses of insulin...
...every new product immediately finds a big market. In July, Eli Lilly began U.S. commercial production of synthetic human insulin. The drug, Humulin, has about the same effects as conventional insulin and costs just as much or more (about 50? a dose). Nonetheless, Eli Lilly still has hopes for major sales...
Diabetics have traditionally assessed their need for insulin by testing the amount of sugar in their urine, using a simple chemical test. Unfortunately, this test is unreliable, and Type 1 diabetics generally suffer from abnormally high and often wildly fluctuating levels of glucose in their bodies. It is suspected that many of the complications of the disease-blindness, kidney failure, narrowing of the arteries and gangrene leading to amputation of limbs-are caused by the buildup of sugar...
...stay in the gray zone, Angela and her classmates will have to increase their injections of insulin from two a day to three, and in some cases four, usually taken before meals and at bedtime. By far the most difficult part of the tight-control regimen is learning how much insulin to give. Most diabetics are accustomed to simply following doctors' orders when it comes to their dosages. Not so under tight control. Students in the self-care program must learn how to adjust their insulin dosage based on their last blood-glucose reading, what and how much they...
...week's end all of the members of the class have successfully entered the gray zone. Two have achieved and maintained this state with the help of an insulin pump, a still-experimental device that mechanically injects a maintenance dose of insulin into the body throughout the day. For all the demands and nuisance of the tight-control regimen, most graduates say it has given them greater freedom. Instead of being told they must never eat ice cream or alter their meal times, they can be more flexible and occasionally enjoy forbidden foods, as long as they adjust their...