Near-Complete Cure For Diabetes In Two Years?

resistant writes "Researchers at a Toronto hospital have stumbled upon a dramatic treatment for mouse diabetes, with large implications for the treatment of diabetes in humans. From the article: 'The islet inflammation cleared up and the diabetes was gone. Some have remained in that state for as long as four months, with just one injection... They also discovered that their treatments curbed the insulin resistance that is the hallmark of Type 2 diabetes, and that insulin resistance is a major factor in Type 1 diabetes, suggesting the two illnesses are quite similar.'"
Update: 12/17 03:46 GMT by KD : resistant adds that the Cell Journal article is posted as a PDF as well as in plain text.

Comments

Poor mice...

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I hope that all of the PETA members who are diabetic refuse to take the new medicine - after all, how could they use medicine that involved giving mice diabetes-like symptoms?

Man is this going to be expensive

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Think about it. Even if you consider the extent of the problem, a "cure" of this magnitude, the potential is to be a once or twice a year (or less) application. Also, given the cost of maintenance, I would have to say a single injection will be in th $4000-5000 range. Wouldn't you pay it to be free of diabetes for a year?

All hail capitalism.

(BTW, for all you losers who think I'm happy about the prospect of a cure that costs as much as half a year's wages at FMW, I'm significantly less than thrilled. I'm happy they're on the way to to a "cure" though.)

Re:But people will sitll complain

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- Fat-haters will complain this lets fat people get away with being fat without worrying about dieing from diabetes.

You have no idea about the different between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes do you? I'll wager that I am thinner than you are (I have Type 1)