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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Exactly 90 years ago today, the first insulin injection was given. Today, more than 59,000 people in Wales, depend on insulin for their daily survival. Health Editor Madeleine Brindley looks at the incredible impact insulin has had
ON JANUARY 23, 1922, a 14-year-old boy called Leonard Thompson became the first person to receive an injection of insulin.
He had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes two years previously and, like others with the condition, was not expected to survive.
The insulin injection 90 years ago today was actually Leonard?s second. Twelve days previously, on January 11, he had his first, which caused an allergic reaction, probably because of an impurity.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...-changed-the-face-of-diabetes-91466-30176224/
ON JANUARY 23, 1922, a 14-year-old boy called Leonard Thompson became the first person to receive an injection of insulin.
He had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes two years previously and, like others with the condition, was not expected to survive.
The insulin injection 90 years ago today was actually Leonard?s second. Twelve days previously, on January 11, he had his first, which caused an allergic reaction, probably because of an impurity.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...-changed-the-face-of-diabetes-91466-30176224/