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Saturday July 31st 2010

Posts Tagged ‘type 1 diabetes’

A Cure For Type 1 Diabetes?

A Cure For Type 1 Diabetes?

Diabetes: cure. INSULIN PRODUCING BETA CELLS PROTECTED IN FOUR YEAR STUDY Let's see what's new. Ah.  Here's a study from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation about a cure for diabetes. Now I KNOW I'm dreaming! A new drug, otelixizumab, is in phase III trials. (Phase III trials are the randomized, controlled, multicenter [...]

An Artificial Pancreas For Diabetes: Still In The Works

An Artificial Pancreas For Diabetes: Still In The Works

image from Creative Commons Medicine: Type 1 Diabetes. An artificial pancreas really is just over SOME horizon now. An announcement from Cambridge (article in the Lancet) describes the fine work of Dr Roman Hovorka at the University of Cambridge, working with a group of seventeen diabetic kids. A cure for [...]

For Type 1 Diabetes, Another Step Forward

For Type 1 Diabetes, Another Step Forward

Medicine: Reversing Diabetes. Remember the difference between Type 1 Diabetes and Type 2? Type 1's the type where the pancreas just can't produce insulin, period. Without insulin you die. So. If you're a "Type 1" you can plan on a regimented life of becoming an expert on your own body, carefully monitoring your glucose [...]