Transplants

By donating cells from her pancreas, a Japanese mother has ended her daughter’s type 1 diabetes — at least for now — say the doctors who performed the transplant operation.

New breakthrough means insulin dependence could be a thing of the past for diabetes sufferers.

Doctors have found a way around a major obstacle in the effort to perfect transplants of islet cells. Only one pancreas needed for transplant of islet cells, rather then two or three.

Using living donors could allow many more patients to get transplants sooner, and the quality will be much better coming from a living donor than from the donated organ of a dead person.

US scientists believe they have made a discovery which could mean a cure for more diabetic patients in the future.

A large percentage of human type 1 diabetes is known to be associated with altered forms of the major histocompatibilty complex (MHC), a group of proteins made by immune cells that regulate many of the functions of the immune system. Evan David Rosen, M.D brings us up to date on …

Very few patients remain insulin independent beyond 4 years after transplantation.

About 58% of diabetes patients given an experimental transplant of pancreatic cells are able to live without insulin injections a year later, Canadian and U.S. doctors reported last week.

Toronto University scientists have said that stem cells can be a cure for diabetes, thereby eradicating the need for replacing insulin.

Democratic challenger John Kerry vowed to lift the restriction on stem cellsf for the sake of millions of Americans with debilitating diseases such as diabetes.