100 Years of Insulin in Australia

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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