WASHINGTON, April 5, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
LIFESAVING MEDICINE
Profile America — Tuesday, April 5th. One of world's foremost lifesaving medicines — insulin — became available this month in 1923 for treating diabetes. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas and is critical in the processing of carbohydrates in the human body. It was first isolated the year before by a Canadian team led by Dr. Frederick Banting at the University of Toronto. The effect was like a miracle. One year, the disease was an automatic death sentence; the next, people who were affected had hopes of living full and productive lives. One of the first beneficiaries was the daughter of U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes. Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs around 235,000 people in a $200 billion a year industry in the U.S. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.
Sources:
Insulin availability/accessed 2/1/2016: http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1923/april
Development/accessed 2/1/2016: http://www.healthcentral.com/dailydose/cf/2013/04/15/april_15_1923_insulin_goes_mainstream
Elizabeth Hughes/accessed 2/1/2016: https://www.idf.org/sites/default/files/attachments/DV_56-SI2_Ainsberg.pdf
Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employment and value/NAICS 3254: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ASM_2014_31AS101&prodType=table
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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