Show NEW DISCOVERY less needle for diabetics CHICAGO A new combination of sta standard edard insulin gives person swi with th severe diabetes more freedom the ithe hypodermic needle and mole moie social freedom a northwestern university medical specialist has said laid the mixture uses two porticos port lois of regular insulin to 1 of drie insulin and is as 21 mixture the northwestern associate professor of medicine who led in it development and testing over s six year period is dr arthur R colwell who is president of the chicago diabetes association dr colwell stated that he ha bad tested the mixture on more than severe diabetics and th t t 80 90 per cent of them needed cull one injection a day in contras to three or more injections so melmes necessary for severe diabetic other lins the new may be injected by the patient program for or rat patients lents the new combination Is administered in the mornine although the most severe cass require two divided doses a day under the older system hous ands of diabetics were to give themselves as many as injections in twenty years witt the new mixture the figure is cut 3 per year or only in twenty years the 21 mixture is more eff effective etive in its results dr colwell said because it provides a smoothed smoot hei balance beewen insulin action anybody utilization of eaten food it voids agolda two opposite situations he aided in one reactions to insulin ar felt during the night when blood ugar falls too low because of insult action in the other blood sugar level Is too high during the daytime because of slow insulin action these faults in insulin therapy were discovered after experience by severe diabetics with prot mine insulin the first long acting to eliminate frequent injection in insulin of this type a simple protein Is mixed with insulin to slow it down some old disadvantages however severe diabetics orne ome times suffered unconsciousness unconscious nes and convulsions during the night when they were using it during th day action of the insul was inadequate ate to let the body handle norma food intake regular insulin acts ti t cut down the blood sugar very bickly and it Is this type which tates frequent small doses th new mixture combines regular anspro an lins so tar far the new product ha h a not been bee n manufactured on a large cale but progress Is being made that objective |