Why indeed? And what can the story of this life-saving drug tell us? And, 100 years after its discovery (although some would dispute this) does it have any lessons for us today? Gave an interview to ‘The Times’ to explain…http://www.kerstenhall.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Insulin-Times-Radio.mp3
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100 years ago today – a medical milestone – or was it…?
100 years ago today saw Canadian scientist Fred Banting hoping to secure his place in medical history with the first ever injection of insulin into a human patient. But the result was disappointing. When he published the work, Banting said that ‘no clinical benefit was evidenced’. Yet only a year later, Banting had received the most prestigious accolade in science – the Nobel Prize – for this medical milestone. How come? What had changed? In a recent interview on BBC 5Live Naked Scientists podcast I explained why…
‘Insulin – the Crooked Timber’ – review, ‘The Daily Telegraph’ Sat 8th Jan
Delighted that in a review of my new book ‘Insulin – the Crooked Timber’ in Saturday’s ‘Daily Telegraph’, journalist Steven Poole gave Florence Bell, unsung heroine of the DNA story her long overdue mention in a national broadsheet! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/insulin-kersten-t-hall-review-jabbing-back-stabbing/
‘Insulin – the Crooked Timber’ – now available to pre-order!
I’m delighted that my new book ‘Insulin – the Crooked Timber’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 13th Jan 2022 to mark the centenary of a medical landmark that has saved countless lives – my own included! It’s a discovery for which I am very grateful and one which, in places, resembles Game of Thrones – enacted with lab coats and test tubes instead of chain mail and poisoned daggers! And it’s now available to pre-order at:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/insulin-the-crooked-timber/kersten-t-hall/9780192855381
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Insulin-by-Kersten-T-Hall/9780192855381