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Trial Using Cancer Meds To Control And Possibly Reverse Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Drug can possibly kill off the T-cells that are attacking the betacells.

First Use of Cord Blood to Alter Course of Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007

Yields Insights for Developing Future Cocktail to Treat the Disease.
Transfusion of the person's own cord blood into newly diagnosed Type 1's, reduced the severity of their diabetes.

How Tummy Surgery Cures Diabetes In A Matter of Days

Posted: Friday, June 08, 2007

Scientists at Swansea University School of Medicine have been funded to investigate why weight-reducing surgery can lead to the almost immediate disappearance of diabetes in patients even before any weight loss.

Insulin Making Cells From Umbilical Cord Blood

Posted: Friday, June 01, 2007

Stem cells taken from the umbilical cords of newborns can be engineered to produce insulin and may some day be used to treat diabetes, US and British researchers say.

Type 1 Diabetics Stop Insulin Injections After Risky Experiment

Posted: Friday, April 20, 2007

Risky Brazil Experiment Enables Type I Diabetics to Live Without Insulin, Other Medicines

Gastric Bypass Surgery Explored as Cure for Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Friday, April 20, 2007

A bariatric surgery procedure used for treating severe obesity is now being explored as a cure for type 2 diabetes mellitus in normal-weight and moderately overweight patients with diabetes.

Study Points to New Direction for Pancreas Cell Regeneration

Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Past studies in tissue culture have suggested that one type of pancreas cell could be coaxed to transform into insulin-producing islet cells.

Combination Therapy Reverses Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Researchers have now carefully crafted a combination therapy that reverses recent-onset type 1 diabetes in 2 animal models of disease.

Novel Peptide Boosts Availability And Success Of Islet Cell Transplant For Type-1 Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007

A peptide developed by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College may expand the availability and durability of islet cell transplant for patients with type-1 diabetes.

Stem Cells Crucial to Diabetes Cure

Posted: Saturday, April 07, 2007

A gene called neurogenin3 proved critical to inducing cells in the liver to produce insulin on a continuing basis. They found that these "islet" cells came from a small population of adult stem cells usually found near the portal vein. Only a few are needed usually because.…