Insulin’s sweet spot sours as diabetes deaths increase
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In 1922, an anxious father was waiting at Pyrmont Wharf in Sydney for a ship to come in.
At home, his five-year-old daughter Phyllis, weighing just 8.5kg, was slowly starving to death on a diet of butter and whey instituted after her diagnosis with type 1 diabetes six months earlier.