Hormones

2 cards. Each one is a 40-second story with a five-minute read behind it.

1. Asthma risk and severity shift by sex across the lifespanA review of asthma research found that biological sex and gender are linked to how the disease appears at different ages. Boys are more likely to have asthma in childhood, but by …
2. Until insulin arrived in 1922, type 1 diabetes was effectively a death sentence.People with type 1 diabetes usually died within months of diagnosis, and doctors' best treatment was a near-starvation diet. Then, in a Toronto lab in 1921, a young surgeon, Frede…

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