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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Dr. George F. Cahill Jr., a diabetes expert who made pivotal discoveries about the role of insulin in metabolism by studying research subjects on starvation diets, and who testified at Claus von B?low?s trials that he had tried to murder his wife with insulin, died on July 30 in Peterborough, N.H. He was 85.
The cause was complications of pneumonia, his daughter, Elizabeth Cahill Tiedemann, said.
Dr. Cahill and generations of researchers he trained ?wrote a lot of what have become the textbooks of physiology,? explaining glucose and protein metabolism both in normal health and in diabetes, said Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, the chief academic officer at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, where Dr. Cahill was research director from 1962 to 1978.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/health/george-f-cahill-jr-diabetes-expert-dies-at-85.html?_r=1
The cause was complications of pneumonia, his daughter, Elizabeth Cahill Tiedemann, said.
Dr. Cahill and generations of researchers he trained ?wrote a lot of what have become the textbooks of physiology,? explaining glucose and protein metabolism both in normal health and in diabetes, said Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, the chief academic officer at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, where Dr. Cahill was research director from 1962 to 1978.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/health/george-f-cahill-jr-diabetes-expert-dies-at-85.html?_r=1