Entrepreneur, wife give $44 million to UM for diabetes study
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. The founder of an information technology company and his wife are giving 44 (M) million dollars to the University of Michigan.
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Cancer doctors received about $275 million from the federal government and the elderly last year as part of a yearlong research project that many doctors believe won't produce any useful findings.
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By Jim Mccartney, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 7--Given the long-lamented dearth of venture capital, the news Wednesday that Thomas, McNerney & Partners has raised $375 million in fresh investment funds should cheer Minnesota's biotech industry.
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US scientists believe they have made a discovery which could mean a cure for more diabetic patients in the future. Some patients have already been cured by islet cell transplants, but a major obstacle is a
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EL PASO, Texas - About 1.2 million of the 8 million adults living along the US-Mexico border have diabetes, significantly more than previously thought, researchers from the two countries announced Wednesday.
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but motivated - adults willing to give up pizza and other bad carbs for the next year and a half. Researchers at Children&#39;s Hospital in Boston are launching what they say will
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A drug used to treat diabetes also seems to prevent it in people at high risk of developing the disease, the largest study ever to test this has found.
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Gail Rutter of Frederick had a problem. Diagnosed earlier this year with diabetes, she and her two grown children thought that their traditional Christmas dinner would be off limits because of its high fat content and added sugar.
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An $18 million grant awarded to the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy will help in the treatment of bone marrow cancer and in the search for a cure, doctors say.
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Doctors have successfully transplanted insulin-producing cells from a mother to her diabetic daughter.
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Researchers at Indiana University, Ohio State University and the University of Missouri have begun a five-year, $8 million project that will help doctors better understand the damage caused by breast and ovarian cancers.
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Over three decades, Bob Klein amassed a fortune by building and financing low-income housing. After his 14-year-old son was diagnosed with diabetes in 2001, however, he redirected his considerable political clout and business savvy. The longtime Democrat has since become one of the biggest private patrons of human embryonic stem cell research &#151; medical technology that many scientists believe can someday cure a wide range of ailments, including diabetes.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle has given a $43 million dollars grant to aid in the development of a genetically engineered form of a Chinese herbal drug that is thought to be effective in curing malaria.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. The founder of an information technology company in Virginia and his diabetic wife are giving 44 (m) million dollars to the University of Michigan for creation of a Type one diabetes research center.
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With the Walk for Diabetes today in Portsmouth, the search for a cure for the more than a million Americans who have Type 1 diabetes comes into focus.
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On Tuesday, December 14th, 2004, it was announced that 72 patients will go to Bristol University in the UK this August to be injected with a protein that could help prevent them from getting Type 1 Diabetes, forever.
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Scientists at Washington University have transplanted embryonic pig pancreatic cells into diabetic monkeys, which could have major implications for the treatment of diabetes in humans.