How a Boy Became the First to Beat Back Diabetes
No stuffy medical paper, the discovery of insulin and its application to human beings made front-page news around the world. By 1923, insulin was produced in seemingly unlimited quantities by the Eli Lilly Company of Indianapolis. It was a blockbuster …
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Tyanna J. Buie, reclaiming family
Buie was just beginning to figure out how to exist in the world without her own mother, who had become addicted to drugs and lived on the street. Her childhood was a churning cycle of grabbing onto things and being … Once, she re-created her whole …
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Frau Koma's Second Coming: Mass Murder, Autism and the Cult of Weaponized …
Between 1988 and 2007, use of antidepressants in the US has risen by 400%, a fact which drug proponents claim is due to “increased recognition” of mental illness. But increased prescribing has not brought with it the expected improvement in mental …
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