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Study Details Look at Immune Cells in Type 1 Diabetes

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Posted: Fri., May 16, 2008, 02:37 pm
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Topics: Diabetes , Beta Cells, Diagnosis, Immune Cells, Research, Treatments - Traditional, type 1 diabetes, EmpowHer News
     

FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) -- New details about the immune cells thought to be responsible for type 1 diabetes are revealed in a study by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
     
     
     
     
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Islet Cell Transplants Aid Type 1 Diabetics

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Posted: Fri., May 16, 2008, 12:15 pm
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Topics: Diabetes , Beta Cells, Digestive Disease, Kidney disease, patients, Research, Treatments - Traditional, Type 1 Diabetics, EmpowHer News
     

By Serena Gordon
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) -- Transplanted islet cells help people with type 1 diabetes live insulin-free for at least a year or two, and appear to provide longer-term improved metabolic control even after people have to begin using insulin again, researchers report.
     
     
     
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