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Diabetes Reversed: FDA Authorizes Human Trials

Posted: Friday, April 21, 2006

After successfully demonstrating that a groundbreaking treatment strategy can reverse type 1 diabetes in animal studies, the FDA has given the go-ahead for researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to begin a phase I trial evaluating the treatment in humans.

Three-Week Diet/Exercise Study Shows 50% Reversal in Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Friday, April 21, 2006

The study shows, contrary to common belief, that Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome can be reversed solely through lifestyle changes." This regimen reversed a clinical diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome in about half the participants who had either of those conditions.

New Diabetes-Related Hormone Found – Possible New Treatment for Type 2

Posted: Monday, November 15, 2004

Canadian researcher believes he may have found the next best thing to a cure for for the most common type of diabetes. The theory is right now we can stop the progression of the disease,"

Stomach-bypass Surgery Cures Diabetes

Posted: Monday, February 09, 2004

By 3 weeks, fasting plasma glucose levels dropped from 159 to 96.3 mg/dL

In a weight loss operation, called gastrojejunal bypass, diabetes associated with obesity can often be cured.

In fact, bypass surgery was more effective than certain drugs or food restriction at controlling sugar levels

Diabetes Cure 'In Sight After Major Breakthrough'

Posted: Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Injection Leads to Islet Regeneration in Autoimmune Diabetes. A possible cure for insulin-dependent diabetes is in sight following a major medical breakthrough. Scientists in the United States have not only halted the disease in mice mimicking human type 1 diabetes, but reversed it. The MGH scientists injected diabetic mice with the spleen cells. The cells migrated to their pancreases, prompting the damaged organs to regenerate into healthy, insulin-making organs, ending their diabetes.

Researchers Pave Way for Stem-Cell Approach to Diabetes Cure With Flies

Posted: Thursday, May 16, 2002

First step in understanding how insulin-releasing cells develop.