Historical Tidbit: Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History   

Historical Tidbit: Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History    Submitted by Evan Graber, DO In July 1995, Dr, Halaas and colleagues reported on a molecule that…

Historical Tidbit – Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History 

Historical Tidbit – Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History  Submitted by Evan Graber, DO  It is difficult to imagine a time when we did not know…

May Historical Tidbit- This Month in Endocrine History      

This Month in Endocrine History     Submitted by Evan Graber, DO In May 1946, it had already been demonstrated that the thyroid gland utilized iodine more than any other organ in…

April Historical Tidbit: Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History  

Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History   Submitted by Evan Graber, DO  In 1963, Arnold H. Kadish reported on the use of a “servomechanism for glucose…

March Historical Tidbit – Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History 

March Historical Tidbit – Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History  Submitted by Evan Graber, DO  In March 1922, Banting and Best published a preliminary report on…

February Historical Tidbit: Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History 

February Historical Tidbit: Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History  Submitted by Evan Graber, DO  In February 1985, Ullrich et al reported the amino acid sequence of the insulin receptor precursor.  This allowed…

Historical Tidbit January – Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History   

Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History    Submitted by Evan Graber, DO In January 1951, Lawson Wilkins et al published their case series demonstrating the…

Historical Tidbit – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (March 8, 1841 to March 6, 1935) American Jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Stated  

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (March 8, 1841 to March 6, 1935) American Jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Stated   Submitted by Alan D. Rogol, MD,…

Historical Tidbit – Vincent Du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 to December 11, 1978) Nobel Laureate for peptide hormone synthesis 

Historical Tidbit – Vincent Du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 to December 11, 1978) Nobel Laureate for peptide hormone synthesis  Alan D. Rogol, MD, Ph.D.   Vincent Du…

Historical Tidbit – Robert McCarrison (March 16, 1878 to May 15, 1960) Iodine deficiency and Himalayan goiter  

Robert McCarrison (March 16, 1878 to May 15, 1960) Iodine deficiency and Himalayan goiter   Submitted by Alan D. Rogol, MD, Ph.D   Robert McCarrison was a physician from…