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Diabetes
About Diabetes
Ancient doctors tasted urine to diagnose it, noting it was sweet. Type 1 was fatal before insulin was discovered in 1921. Type 2 accounts for 90% of cases and is increasing rapidly. 537 million adults have diabetes globally. The discoverers sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a nominal 1 dollar each.
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