- Title
- 100 Years of Insulin in Australia
- Creator
- Colagiuri, Stephen; Wilkinson, Roger; Storey, Catherine; Cuthbertson, Andrew; Bennett, Clive N.; Lush, Studley; Cox, Emma (Sainsbury); Bootcov, Michelle; Coleborne, Catharine
- Relation
- Health and History Vol. 25, Issue 1, p. 92-112
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904714
- Publisher
- Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- In 1921, Frederick Banting and his colleagues in Toronto, Canada, first used insulin for managing type 1 diabetes. Insulin transformed the disease from a death sentence to a chronic condition requiring life-long management. News of the development spread fast, and Australia became an early therapeutic adoptor and manufacturer of insulin; the same year Australian physicians were experimenting with insulin. An estimated 1.8 million Australians live with diabetes; it remains a significant health problem for First Nations Australians.2 In this witness seminar, the achievements of the first 100 years of insulin are celebrated.
- Subject
- insulin; diabetes; life-long management; http://dx.doi.org/100 years
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1506428
- Identifier
- uon:55866
- Identifier
- ISSN:1442-1771
- Language
- eng
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