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View Post: Pancreas Transplant - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched ...
10 Aug 2009 by April Ganz  
I have been a type 1 diabetic for 20 years. When I was younger I never took care of myself. My endocrinologist always warned me about the complications I would have later on in life. I let it go in one ear and out the other, ...
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View Post: Embryonic Stem Cell Transplantation Correlates With Endogenous ...
16 Nov 2009 by Kodama, M., Tsukamoto, K., Yoshida, K.,...  
Pancreatic β cell regeneration remains poorly understood, yet stimulation of adult β cell neogenesis could lead to therapies for type 1 and type 2 diabetes. We studied the effect of embryonic stem (ES) cell transplantation on pancreas ...
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View Post: HispanicTips » » Physician bias might keep life-saving transplants ...
9 Nov 2009 by Tomas  
“I don't think the medical community has been aggressive enough about kidney/pancreas transplant, especially in African Americans who are assumed to have type 2 diabetes. When a person has type 2 diabetes and they are obese, ...
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View Post: Physician Bias May Affect Transplants - HispanicBusiness.com
19 Nov 2009
"I don't think the medical community has been aggressive enough about kidney/pancreas transplant, especially in African-Americans who are assumed to have type 2 diabetes." Melancon said physicians might incorrectly assume ...
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View Post: Pioneering diabetes treatment centre to open in Edinburgh ...
18 Nov 2009
"It's also made possible by the close collaboration between the pancreas transplant programme at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service and the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine." ...
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View Post: Pancreas transplantation: differences in activity between Europe ...
17 Nov 2009 by Gonzalez-Posada, J. M., Marrero, D., Hernandez,...  
Although pancreas transplantation (PT) is the treatment of choice in selected diabetic patients, the International Pancreas Transplant Registry (IPTR) has reported important differences in activity between USA and Europe. ...
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View Post: Special diabetes treatment now available to Scottish patients ...
19 Nov 2009
Research manager at Diabetes UK Dr Victoria King said that islets are used for patients at "great risk" of other diabetes-related complications, such as cardiovascular conditions and kidney disease. "A pancreas transplant is major ...
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View Post: Hy-Vee Invites Customers To Fight Diabetes While Getting Diabetes ...
11 Sep 2009 by Alex Chasick  
There is no known way to prevent type 1 diabetes. We (yes I'm a type 1!) will take shots (or use an insulin pump) for the rest of our lives unless we have a successful pancreas transplant. (and then we'll take drugs to suppress our ...
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View Post: Stem Cell Transplant May Reverse Type 1 Diabetes
18 Apr 2009
In recent years, pancreas transplants have been used to treat type 1 diabetes, but not only is the operation itself serious, the side effects of the drugs required to prevent the immune system from fighting the new organ may be worse ...
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