Source: Associated Press / NBC News
Posted: 4:43 p.m. PT April 10, 2007
Summary:
The Associated Press reports on a new treatment for type 1 diabetes enabling patients to be independent of insulin:
"Thirteen young diabetics in Brazil have ditched their insulin shots and need no other medication thanks to a risky, but promising treatment with their own stem cells — apparently the first time such a feat has been accomplished. Though too early to call it a cure, the procedure has enabled the young people, who have type 1 diabetes, to live insulin-free so far, some as long as three years. The treatment involves stem cell transplants from the patients’ own blood."
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