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Near-Complete Cure For Diabetes In Two Years?

Posted by kdawson on from the medical-miracle dept.

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.

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  1. Or by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am god
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    slashdot sucks

  2. Re:Yet again, it's always the mice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why do we need to wait for 'human trials'? (i.e. EXPERIMENTS on humans). Surely this new procedure/drug can go straight to market, without any human experiments, since, after all, mice are exactly the same as humans, aren't they?
    What's that you say? They're not?
    There was I thinking that vivisection wasn't a giant fraud that has failed to produce any cures for anything. All the cures we now have came about through HUMAN EXPERIMENTS - commonly known as 'clinical trials'. The dirty little secret is that most drugs and procedures FAIL 'clinical trials' - thus proving the experiments on animals when they WORKED bore no relation to how they react in humans...

  3. Insurance In The US by foleyman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Unfortunately the insurance companies, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies here make too much money on diabetes. They will: A) Never allow the cure to be FDA Approved or B) Just not have it as an 'Approved' treatment and make you pay for it out of pocket Very sad, but very true.

  4. Re:At least it's not always 20 years away! by cthulhu11 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Diabetics can substantially improve their situation if they stop mistaking animals for food. A significant percentage can go off insulin entirely.