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Could Stem Cell Therapy Cure Diabetes?
In the United States alone, over 34 million people suffer from diabetes, with over 1.5 million new diagnoses each year. About 1.6 million Americans have type 1 diabetes, which requires -insulin therapy-, but it’s extremely expensive and often hard for patients to regulate. Even with therapy, diabetes is an extremely dangerous disease with an astonishing death rate. Naturally, some researchers have...
August 5, 2020
Is COVID-19 Triggering Diabetes?
COVID-19 seems to bring new surprises at every turn. The devastation has hit all over the world, the effects already having ravaged and killed hundreds of thousands of people. And it never seems to let up with me challenges coming to light all the time. This is science in real-time as we learn about this virus on the fly. Researchers are now reporting a subset of patients developing diabetes in response...
July 21, 2020
What Everyone Should Know About Diabetes
In 2017, it was reported that - over 100 million - Americans were living with diabetes or prediabetes. Diabetes is a disorder of the human metabolism and is separated into three main types: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. The - 5% - of Americans with type 1 diabetes are generally born with the disease, and it’s diagnosed when the body doesn’t produce enough insulin to help transport glucose...
December 31, 2019
The Tuberculosis Vaccine Could Treat Type 1 Diabetes
The - bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG) vaccine - , which has traditionally been used to prevent tuberculosis, may have a second calling. The first phase of clinical trials using the vaccine as a treatment for type 1 diabetes has ended, and researchers believe they may have stumbled upon not only a treatment— but a possible cure. What Is Type 1 Diabetes? - About 1.25 million Americans have type 1 -diabetes-,...
July 12, 2018