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Research: Cure

I read about a trial of some new kind of autoimmune suppressant to prevent the body from killing off remaining beta cells during the honeymoon period. Is this likely to go anywhere quickly enough to help kids now in that phase of the disease?

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Could our newborn’s cord blood could be used for our three and half year old diabetic son some day?

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I recently read somewhere that it is believed that a cure for diabetes has been found, and that it was hoped to have ‘the cure’ out on the market within 10 years. I can’t remember the specifics of my resources, but two doctors from a university in Canada had been working and testing with animals for years. Do you know anything about this?

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Is there any news on the results of the INGAP trial? What is your opinion of the INGAP Peptide as a cure? Are results available for The European Nicotinamide Diabetes Intervention Trial? Has any evaluation been done on Niacinamide’s effectiveness on LADA patients?

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At age 40, my brother was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. His pancreas produces no insulin. Can several family members go together and donate islet cells for him? John has always been very athletic and healthy and we as a family would do what ever it took to keep him that way. Is there any real hope for him?

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The endocrinology department we are working with has provided very little information about the honeymoon period or any possible means of prolonging or restoring beta cell functions. Also, when I asked about having her two sisters tested, I was told they could not be tested unless we were chosen to participate in a clinical trial.

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Is there any way I could get a stem cell operation?

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What is the current status of efforts to find a cure for type 1 diabetes? I keep hearing that it will come in 10 years, but I heard that when my daughter was diagnosed six years ago and still hear that.

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If researchers were successful at preventing type 1 and reversing it in the newly diagnosed, would they stop doing research to help longer time sufferers of the disease?

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I am have type 1 diabetes, and I have been deeply disturbed over what I am hearing about pancreas transplants and cures not being available to those of us who have not yet developed complications. Why can’t those of us with diabetes have the opportunity to live the rest of our lives without complications and the depressing knowledge that our misfortune will eventually be the end of us?

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