When was diabetes discovered ?
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Apparently as early as 1552 BC, according to the site below.
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting\n\n\n\nSir Frederick Banting, with John James Richard Macleod, won the Nobel Prize in 1923 in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hormone insulin.\n\nBanting began to test his theory in May 1921. Dr. C.H. Best became Banting's assistant because he had experience in biochemistry and physiology (he had recently graduated from the University of Toronto). What they didn't realize was this theory had been tried unsuccessfully in the past - in retrospect Best felt Banting's surgical expertise made the difference.\n\nThrough experimentation on dogs, they found the dogs were able to metabolize glucose when injected with a solution they had prepared from tissue called islet of Langerhorns. (They had removed the dogs pancreas in order to cause diabetes)\n\nTesting on humans commenced in 1922 with successful results. Diabetics previously facing starvation and death now had hope for the future.\n\nFame followed shortly thereafter for Banting and Best. Banting shared his Nobel Prize with Best, feeling that he should have been officially recognized as well. The award was also given to another collaborator, Macleod, the Director of the Physiological Lab in the University of Toronto where the process of insulin extraction was developed.\n\nBanting was coordinating the National Wartime Medical Research effort during WWII when he was killed in a plane crash in Newfoundland in 1941.\n\nBanting was Canada's first Nobel Laureate.
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well i never heard of it to treat diabetes..I sure i would know of it i am diabetic. I guess i'll have to ask my doctor
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Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for daily life. The cause of diabetes continues to be a mystery, although both genetics and environmental factors such as obesity and lack of exercise appear to play roles.\n\nThere are 20.8 million people in the United States, or 7% of the population, who have diabetes. While an estimated 14.6 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, unfortunately, 6.2 million people (or nearly one-third) are unaware that they have the disease.\n\nIn order to determine whether or not a patient has pre-diabetes or diabetes, health care providers conduct a Fasting Plasma Glucose Test (FPG) or an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT). Either test can be used to diagnose pre-diabetes or diabetes. The American Diabetes Association recommends the FPG because it is easier, faster, and less expensive to perform.\n\nWith the FPG test, a fasting blood glucose level between 100 and 125 mg/dl signals pre-diabetes. A person with a fasting blood glucose level of 126 mg/dl or higher has diabetes.\n\nIn the OGTT test, a person's blood glucose level is measured after a fast and two hours after drinking a glucose-rich beverage. If the two-hour blood glucose level is between 140 and 199 mg/dl, the person tested has pre-diabetes. If the two-hour blood glucose level is at 200 mg/dl or higher, the person tested has diabetes.\nMajor Types of Diabetes\n\n\nThe Complete Guide to Diabetes, 4th EditionFurther Reading . . .\nThe Complete Guide to Diabetes has been completely revised to bring you all the information you need to live an active, healthy life with diabetes. Now in its fourth edition, this guide gives you information on the best self-care techniques and the latest medical advances. If you have diabetes, this guide will answer all your questions.\nFor more books on healthy living, click here.\n\nType 1 diabetes\nResults from the body's failure to produce insulin, the hormone that "unlocks" the cells of the body, allowing glucose to enter and fuel them. It is estimated that 5-10% of Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 1 diabetes.\n\nType 2 diabetes\nResults from insulin resistance (a condition in which the body fails to properly use insulin), combined with relative insulin deficiency. Most Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.\n\nGestational diabetes\nGestational diabetes affects about 4% of all pregnant women - about 135,000 cases in the United States each year.\n\nPre-diabetes\nPre-diabetes is a condition that occurs when a person's blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough for a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. There are 41 million Americans who have pre-diabetes, in addition to the 20.8 million with diabetes.\nAdditional Information\n\n\nDiabetes Learning Center for the Recently Diagnosed\nYou've just been diagnosed with diabetes. Chances are you have a million questions running through your head. To help you answer those questions, and take the first steps toward better diabetes care, visit the Diabetes Learning Center -- an area for people who have been recently diagnosed with diabetes, or those needing basic information.\n\nDiabetes Symptoms\nOften diabetes goes undiagnosed because many of its symptoms seem so harmless. Learn what they are in this section.\n\nDiabetes Risk Test\nMore than 20 million Americans have diabetes - nearly one in three does not know it! Take our diabetes risk test to see if you are at risk for having diabetes. Diabetes is more common in African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.\n\nDiabetes Myths\nFind the truth about some of the most common myths about diabetes.\n\nDiabetes Statistics\nWith so many people affected by diabetes, the American Diabetes Association has compiled statistics on the impact of diabetes and its complica
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Genetic diseases (can't correct people's genes yet)\nAIDS\nDiabetes (well, until the transplant of pancreas is discovered)
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http://www.diabetes.org/about-diabetes.jsp
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I was shocked when I was told I had it.\nMy life has changed dramatically...for the better.  I am healthier, eat a better diet and I am fitter coz I got off my bottom and started doing some exercise!\nI dont take insulin (I have late onset/type 2) diabetes.  I take tablets.  Mind you, I have to watch my blood glucose as I tend to go hypo!
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Study of "Mad Cow" disease.  Or maybe something on insulin and diabetes.
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There are, at this writing, NO cures for diabetes mellitus (either Type 1 or Type 2, which are quite different diseases with shared symptoms). Whether herbal or otherwise. We now understand diabetes well enough to understand what it is, and what a cure would behave. And nothing comes close so far. \n\nThere is some prospect of cures for both, however. In the case of uncomplicated Type 1, replacement of the beta cells which have been lost would be a cure. The problem is that  beta cells from anyone else are attacked by the immune system and destroyed. There are various schemes for evading this in the research labs, and some of them are showing promise. A clinically successful approach is (probably) going to be found relatively soon, and if so, Type 1 will be curable. The 'graft rejection' immune system problem could be evaded if beta cells could be developed from the body's own cells. This will likely be possible if we could understand stem cells well enough, and this possibility is one of the strongest promises of that research. The political situation surrounding stem cell research (especially in the US) merely complicates the research problem, but doesn't change the underlying possibilities and promise of the science.\n\nType 2 is more difficult as the characteristic problem is the resistence of cells throughout the body to the action of insulin in getting body cells to absorb glucose from the blood. However, we are close to understanding the underlying cellular mechanism of insulin action (and perhaps to the cause of its failure) and this may lead to a theraputic advance good enough to be called a cure.\n\n\n=======\n\nOne of the most serious problems in regard to diabetes is the frequency and variety of the quackery which surrounds it. It is a serious disease (both of the most common Types) and is a real nuisance to treat in all Type 1 cases (insulin is required) and many Type 2 cases (unending scheming about diet, exercise, and medication of various types). With no  cure from standard medicine, there seems to be an open invitation to sharp operators. The variety of 'ancient cures' from somewhere else in the world, 'non-toxic treatments', and so on is substantial. Absolutely none of these 'cures' or 'supports' has been shown to actually work; if any of them did, it will be adopted quite promptly by regular medicine since there are no effective treatments for diabetes which aren't a nuisance for both patient and doctor. Patients would demand it with no doubt at all, as such a breakthrough would certainly be first page news around the world. Diabetes and insulin research have won at least 4 Nobel Prizes so far, and there's little reason to think there wouldn't be another for such a breakthrough. Quite an incentive for researchers, actually.
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1883 and the test was for scurvey.\nsorry below me, 16th century China did not have the optics for closely examining blood.
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In 2005 a 61 year old type 1 diabetic from uk was cured by having an islet cell transplant.  Healthy islet cells are taken from pancreases from dead or living donors and injected into the patients liver, they then develop their own blood supply and begin to produce insulin.
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Try www.insulin-pumpers.org \n\nSite is for those with diabetes using insulin pump therapy and caregivers of diabetics.  There's always lots of discussions on the latest breakthroughs in technology and research.
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No one is gonna be able to answer this with that little information.  Why did you post in diabetes?  Do you know what proton pumps are?  They have nothing to do with diabetes- they make acid.
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There are many and they can be found at http://www.superpages.com/yellowpages/C-Diabetes+Physicians/S-KY/T-Hopkinsville/
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I believe that diabetes may be a disqualifier to join the military. I know several people that were diagnosed during their service (including my brother in law, serving in a navy helicoptor squadron in San Diego), but I never knew anyone that had it when they enlisted (and knew about it)
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There are many sources to look at.\n\nProbably the most user-friendly is from the American Diabetes Association.\n\nEnjoy.
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Here is the history of cystic fibrosis:\n\nAlthough the entire clinical spectrum of CF was not recognized until the 1930s, certain aspects of CF were identified much earlier. Indeed, literature from Germany and Switzerland in the 1700s warned "Wehe dem Kind, das beim Kuß auf die Stirn salzig schmekt, er ist verhext und muss bald sterben" which translates to "Woe is the child who tastes salty from a kiss on the brow, for he is cursed, and soon must die," recognizing the association between the salt loss in CF and illness. Carl von Rokitansky described a case of fetal death with meconium peritonitis, a complication of meconium ileus associated with cystic fibrosis. Meconium ileus was first described in 1905 by Karl Landsteiner.  In 1936, Guido Fanconi published a paper describing a connection between celiac disease, cystic fibrosis of the pancreas, and bronchiectasis.\n\nIn 1938, Dorothy Hansine Andersen published an article titled "Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and its relation to celiac disease: a clinical and pathological study" in the American Journal of Diseases of Children. In her paper, she described the characteristic cystic fibrosis of the pancreas correlated it with the lung and intestinal disease prominent in CF.  She also first hypothesized that CF was a recessive disease and first used pancreatic enzyme replacement to treat affected children. In 1952, Paul di Sant' Agnese discovered abnormalities in sweat electrolytes; the sweat test was developed and improved over the next decade.\nIn 1988, the first mutation for CF, ΔF508, was discovered by Francis Collins, Lap-Chee Tsui and John R. Riordan on the seventh chromosome. Research has subsequently found over 1000 different mutations that cause CF. Lap-Chee Tsui led a team of researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto that discovered the gene responsible for CF in 1989. Cystic fibrosis represents the first genetic disorder elucidated strictly by the process of reverse genetics. Because mutations in the CFTR gene are typically small, classical genetics techniques were not able to accurately pinpoint the mutated gene.  Using protein markers, gene linkage studies were able to map the mutation to chromosome 7.  Chromosome walking and jumping techniques were then used to identify and sequence the gene\n\nCF is also widely known as "65 Roses." The phrase came into being when it was used by a young boy who had overheard his mother speaking of his illness. He later informed her that he knew she was working to help with "sixty-five roses".  The term has since been used as a symbol by organizations and families of cystic fibrosis victims. In recent years, the need for funding has increased and entertainers around the world are helping to raise overall awareness for the disease. Notable entertainers include pop singer Celine Dion, rock singer Richard Marx, rock group Paul Collins' Beat, Country music singer Charley Pride, rock singer John Wicks, Country music singer Lee Greenwood and painter Michael Israel, who have each helped to raise awareness for cystic fibrosis through special appearances and events worldwide.