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Diabetes is a disease which hinders the normal processing of glucose in the blood. Insulin controls the level of blood sugar and enables many people to live with the disease...
...free lunch, several Harvard students have given one morning this fall to researchers testing the effectiveness of nasal spray insulin for diabetics...
...comparing nasal administration to other methods, and our preliminary experiments to date are very encouraging," commented Dr. Alan C. Moses, assistant professor of medicine. Currently, diabetics must receive insulin through injections...
...blood samples are used to determine how much the insulin reaches bloodstream over a given time period. Another drug, Adjuvent, is sprayed on the nasal membranes to enhance the absorption of the insulin...
Within only half a year of its birth, TIME featured the first scientist on its cover: Frederick G. Banting, the Canadian physician who, with Charles H. Best, extracted the hormone insulin from the pancreas and finally provided a successful treatment of diabetes mellitus, until then almost always a killer. Two months later the spotlight focused on the naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews, whose hunt for dinosaur and other ancient fossil remains in the Gobi Desert had fascinated the nation. In its second year, long before the id and the superego had become the chatter of the cocktail hour, TIME devoted...