Posted on February 3, 2014 by jss
Universal availability of insulin yet to be achieved. There are fewer than nine years to go before the centenary of insulin’s introduction in 1922, but David Beran is not ready to celebrate. He faces a long battle to meet the objective of the 100 Campaign, which seeks to make the product available universally by the...
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Posted on February 3, 2014 by jss
Employers can takes steps to help staff live with diabetes With the potential for diabetes to lead to stroke, heart attack, blindness, amputation and kidney damage, patients need a carefully monitored medical regime. However, since they must also maintain control of everything from sugar and cholesterol levels to weight and blood pressure, drugs are only...
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Posted on February 3, 2014 by jss
Drug manufacturers seek to expand the range of treatments Three companies have long dominated the commercial battle over insulin. For nearly a century since it was first developed, the precursors of what are now Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and Sonofi have continued to corner growing global sales currently totalling $20bn a year. From animal to human insulin, and increasingly to...
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Posted on February 3, 2014 by jss
Mechanical solution to type 1 diabetes in sight. Building an “artificial pancreas” to replace the patient’s insulin-producing organ after it fails is an important theme of diabetes research. There are two very different approaches to the artificial pancreas. The biological approach – to develop a new organ through cell therapy and tissue engineering – is the...
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Posted on December 7, 2013 by jss
The Perpetual Challenge of Infectious Diseases Among the many challenges to health, infectious diseases stand out for their ability to have a profound impact on the human species. Great pandemics and local epidemics alike have influenced the course of wars, determined the fates of nations and empires, and affected the progress of civilization, making infections...
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Posted on December 6, 2013 by jss
Tale of Coronary Artery Disease and Myocardial Infarction. The remarkable facts, that the paroxysm, or indeed the disease itself, is excited more especially upon walking up hill, and after a meal; that thus excited, it is accompanied with a sensation, which threatens instant death if the motion is persisted in; and, that on stopping, the...
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