One of the most interesting pieces in the news today is that British scientists and doctors may have found a method to cure Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. This is a type of diabetes that primarily presents in younger patients, often as potentially fatal diabetic ketoacidosis which may lead to coma and death. These patients are almost always on life-long insulin injections.
However, a solution has been found, where doctors harvest islet cells from cadaveric pancreas, meaning, from dead bodies, and then inject these cells into the patient’s liver. An average of 3 injections is required, and some patients have been almost completely cured, not requiring any insulin injections at all.
More research will need to be done, but it appears that there is light at the end of the tunnel for these young patients.
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