When Frederick Banting invented insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent, thinking it was unethical for a doctor to profit from such a discovery. He believed that insulin belonged to the public. His co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for only …
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According to the American Diabetes Association, there were 30.3 million Americans who had diabetes in 2015, and there are 1.5 million that get diagnosed every year. Diabetes is a metabolic disease that causes high blood sugar. The hormone insulin moves sugar from the blood to the cells for it to be used as energy. With …
Who would have thought that one of the world’s favorite sweet food can actually soothe cough? Most people reach out for lemon or cough syrup to cure the symptoms, while in fact you can simply indulge in a bar of chocolate. It sounds too good to be true, but this is the most recent findings. …
For those who have chronic migraine, the severe throbbing in their head which most often leave them feeling disabled, cannot be cured by a simple sleep, or a pop of Ibuprofen. It is actually a wonder how they could stand having to suffer from migraine in a daily basis. Some of those even experience migraine …