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View Post: Dr. Faustman Research Update - TuDiabetes - A Community for People ...
24 Sep 2009 by Gerri  
First, unlike other immunosuppressive therapies for autoimmune diseases that harm both healthy and disease-causing T-cells, this treatment appears to provide a way to achieve "targeted removal" of only autoimmune disease-causing cells. ... Therefore, this human trial at Mass General is designed to treat people with established Type 1 diabetes unlike most human testing that focuses only on not yet diabetic patients at risk for the disease or newly diagnosed diabetics with ...
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View Post: Tacoma Art Museum Docents Blog TAM Docents Blog: TAM Docents ...
25 Nov 2009 by eConsultant  
I wanted to make you aware of an addition to our atrium this holiday season as it may play well into general museum tours – and it's just plain fun! Please read below to learn more about the Gingerbread Village at Tacoma Art Museum. ... The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that strikes children and adults suddenly, and can be fatal. Until a cure is found, ...
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View Post: Interview With Dr. George Eisenbarth
23 Nov 2009 by A Sweet Life Staff  
The other area is trying to address type 1 diabetes as an autoimmune or immunologic illness. We do that not only for type 1 diabetes but for many autoimmune diseases. Our type 1 patients have a high risk of celiac disease, autoimmune ...
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View Post: arc :: Scientists study impact of rheumatoid arthritis on heart risk
17 Nov 2009 by Arthritis Research Campaign (mailto:info@arc.or...  
A new study has confirmed that people with rheumatoid arthritis face a significantly heightened risk of heart disease. ... with just 4.3 per cent of the general population. Overall, people with rheumatoid arthritis were found to be 1.94 times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than people without the autoimmune disease. Furthermore, the risk of developing cardiovascular disease was found to be of a similar magnitude to that of patients with type-2 diabetes. ...
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View Post: Cooling Inflammation: Superoxide Causes Insulin Resistance, Type 2 ...
23 Nov 2009 by Dr. Art Ayers  
Inflammation is the foundation for cancer and degenerative/autoimmune diseases. Small changes in diet and exercise, e.g. omega-3 oils, vitamin D, low starch, plant antioxidants, and maintaining muscle mass, can dramatically alter predisposition to ... Type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance represents the others extreme, i.e. what happens when cells get too much glucose, max out their capacity to make ATP and high energy electrons build up in the electron transport chain. ...
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View Post: What You Need to Know About Juvenile Diabetes
20 Nov 2009
Juvenile diabetes research shows that it is a type of autoimmune disease in which the body is fighting itself The immune system starts to attack its own support systems, for reasons we haven't discovered In diabetics these are the cells ...
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View Post: HADASSAH/HARVARD MEDICAL BEGIN PHASE 1 FOR AUTOIMMUNE THERAPY ...
1 Mar 2008
(BWH), a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have announced an equally owned joint scientific venture to develop a new orally administered therapeutic treatment for autoimmune diseases. .... Cancer Institute. , Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Forsyth Institute, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Joslin Diabetes Center Joslin Diabetes Center is the world's largest and most respected diabetes research center, diabetes clinic, and provider of diabetes education. ...
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View Post: Type 1 Diabetes: The Gut Connection.
9 Nov 2009 by Robb Wolf  
I know it's kinda thick, technical stuff but what this paper indicates is when a doctor (or anyone else) sits back and dismisses the gut autoimmune connection for Type 1 diabetes (or any other autoimmune disease) they are really missing .... It is also possible that T1D is a general autoimmune disorder in which the intestinal epithelium is an innocent bystander and a victim of hyperglycemia- its destruction leads to leaky gut and then you get introduction of antigens into ...
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View Post: Researchers working on fun way to combat childhood obesity
16 Nov 2009 by Ians  
October 21st, 2009 SYDNEY - Scientists have discovered a tiny genetic irregularity that boosts the expression of a key gene which may lead to the development of Type-1 diabetes. Type-1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, where the body ...
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View Post: Diabetes: African Americans Deadly Foe
20 Nov 2009 by admin  
Five to ten percent of African Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes are diagnosed with this type of the disease. Type I diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the body produces little or no insulin and this type of diabetes must ...
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