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New MRI Technique Can Detect Diabetes
MonkeyBoy writes "Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center and Massachusetts General Hospital have unveiled a new magnetic nanoparticle based magnetic resonance imaging technique that can detect diabetes even before clinical symptoms. In mice they were able to take non-invasive images of pancreatic inflammation and its reversal for type 1 diabetes. Full article is available as a PDF from Pubmedcentral. Will we see rapid translation of these pre-clinical observations to prediction and/or stratification of type 1 diabetes and treatment of individuals with the disease? This would provide a crucially needed early predictor of response to therapy. As an added bonus it looks like the analysis was done on a Linux box too."
Sweet!
Sure.. MRI should be able to scare away diabetes with the ridiculous sounds it makes..Gosh why did no one think of this before?
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Yay! Now they can detect my Mountain Dew drinking habits and force me to go cold turkey even when I'm still in denial!
This doesn't belong on Slashdot.
Of course it does. Given the sedentary lifestyle of many Slashdotters, it concerns them most directly.
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One place I worked, the MRI was placed in the basement, just below the main server room.
Predictably hilarious consequences happened.
Hospital management. Gotta love 'em.
That first link is complete quackery. There is NO TREATMENT for Type I diabetes except insulin, PERIOD. I'm a diabetic, I know this.
/. deserves everything that happens to them.
There's plenty of treatments for Type I diabetes, providing you don't mind ketoacidosis, hyperglycemia, impotence, blindness and all the other fun side-effects.
Mind you, anyone that takes health advice from
The subject of this thread is not correct for the Slashdot audience. A more appropriate subject would be "Linux cures diabetes."