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Possible Diabetes Cure
Apr. 12th, 2007 03:02 pmMedical scientists have managed to effect a cure in some sufferers of Type 1 diabetes using self-derived stem cells. For those fellow skeptics, the results have been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association for peer review.
Diabetics cured in stem-cell treatment advance
Excerpt:
In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes were given drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by transfusions of stem cells drawn from their own blood.
The results show that insulin-dependent diabetics can be freed from reliance on needles by an injection of their own stem cells. The therapy could signal a revolution in the treatment of the condition, which affects more than 300,000 Britons.
This looks like a potentially amazing breakthrough.
Diabetics cured in stem-cell treatment advance
Excerpt:
In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes were given drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by transfusions of stem cells drawn from their own blood.
The results show that insulin-dependent diabetics can be freed from reliance on needles by an injection of their own stem cells. The therapy could signal a revolution in the treatment of the condition, which affects more than 300,000 Britons.
This looks like a potentially amazing breakthrough.
