Source: Medical News Today
Posted: April 11 2007 - 0:00 PDT
Summary:
A Brazilian study has shown that stem cell transplants in patients with diabetes type 1 may kick start the pancreas into producing insulin again. It is still too early to tell if the effect is permanent, but some patients have remained insulin free for over 20 months. The study is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). This study is the first to combine both the immunosuppression and the stem cell transplant in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes patients.
