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- From: andrewh@panix.com (Andrew Huie)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Need some info on diabetes and other diseases
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.200710.2458@panix.com>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 20:07:10 GMT
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- I have a few questions concerning diabetes and other diseases which are
- treatable but not curable (this is for a writer I know):
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- 1) What causes diabetes?
- 2) What are the symptoms and effects? How many of the effects are reversible?
- 3) What are the usual methods for getting insulin into the body? How
- frequent can the treatments be? What happens if the person gets too much
- insulin?
- 4) What other diseases exist which are incurable but can be treated by
- self-administered injections or skin patches (not orally, nasally,etc.), to
- the point where the person can live fairly normal lives; i.e., there is no
- serious disfigurement or debilitation. Please give a description of
- the cause(s), effect(s), and treatment (or if that's not possible, a
- recommended work that a layman can understand will suffice). I only need a
- few examples, not everything that ever existed.
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- Thanks in advance!
-