Did fenofibrate – a common cholesterol drug – reverse one 19-year old woman’s newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes?
This is the question at the heart…
Category: Cure
We all know that in Type 1 diabetes, the pancreas’ beta cells cease to function. But are they eliminated? Do they die? Or are they merely “stunned?”…
JDRF has announced the launch of the JDRF Northern California Center of Excellence, to accelerate high-impact research at Stanford University…
Today JDRF and the American Diabetes Association released a joint statement on the findings of Dr. Denise Faustman’s recently published…
A new study from the Faustman Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital suggests that a nearly 100 year old tuberculosis vaccine called BCG may hold…
A few months ago, I interviewed Daniel Darkes, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in February 2011. Miraculously, in December 2016, after repeated…
A unique scientific approach to preventing, treating and, perhaps one day, curing type 1 diabetes is being coupled with JDRF’s equally…
As editor of ASweetLife, the Diabetes Magazine, one of my jobs is to block the barrage of comments we receive from people claiming to have cured their…
A predictive test could tell researchers whether or not stem cell or islet cell transplant to ‘cure’ diabetes will work.
As a person…
I have been living with type 1 diabetes for 25 years now. The relentlessness of type 1, and the fact that I will probably live with this non-preventable…