The Overend-Knight Medical History Podcast

Goodwill to Goodwin: Diabetes and the UK's first clinical trial of insulin


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In 1923, Sheffield industrialist Sir Stuart Goodwin became one of the first diabetes patients in the UK to be treated successfully with insulin. The first episode of the Overend-Knight Medical History Podcast explains the prospects for diabetes patients in the 1920s, how the University of Sheffield was chosen by the Medical Research Council to run Britain's first clinical trials of insulin, and the innovative diabetes research that continues to this day.

Stuart Goodwin before and after insulin – reproduced with permission of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Host: Professor Allan Pacey

Contributors: Jackie Elliott (Senior Lecturer in Diabetes, The University of Sheffield), Solomon Tesfaye (Professor of Diabetes Medicine, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) and Mike Collins (medical historian)

Producers: Professor Sheila Francis and Andrew Tattersall

Music: The Longbeards Beneath The Mountains by Justin Allan Arnold | https://www.ifnessfreemusic.com. Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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