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1 entries match Rheumatology, Rehab & Pain [C05 / C26] · Nobel Prizes [K01.150.567]

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1949

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The effects of a hormone of the adrenal cortex (17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone: compound E) and of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone on rheumatoid arthritis.

HENCH, Philip Showalter (1896 – 1965)
HENCH, Philip Showalter (1896 – 1965) KENDALL, Edward Calvin (1886 – 1972)

Introduction of cortisone and A.C.T.H. in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. With C. H. Slocumb, and H. F. Polley. In 1950 Hench and Kendall shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tadeusz Reichstein (No…