RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Seventy-five years later, insulin remains Canada's major medical-research coup
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 1306
OP 1308
VO 155
IS 9
A1 Rafuse, J.
YR 1996
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/155/9/1306.abstract
AB The world observes the 75th anniversary of the landmark discovery of insulin this year, a medical miracle that bears a large "made-in-Canada" stamp. CMAJ played a part in this story by publishing preliminary results of the first clinical trial on a human in March 1922. November is Diabetes Month, and to mark World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14 CMAJ once again heralds the accomplishment of the four discoverers of insulin.