Diabetology (BLOOD SUGAR) Part 2 Encore with Mike Natter
Ologies with Alie Ward
The Rise of Insulin in America
Today is world diabetes day. Dr. Banting, he discovered the therapeutic use for insulin. He was able to kind of distill it from, I believe, a dog's pancreas and use it in a young diabetic boy who saved his life. And so now we've somehow come into this very unfortunate and corrupted place of capitalism where they're only three major pharmaceutical companies at manufacturer insulin.
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