Diabetes Vaccine To Undergo Human Trials
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Suffers of Type 1 diabetes usually develop the condition before they reach 40 and need to inject themselves with the hormone insulin daily otherwise their blood sugar levels would increase causing death.
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Scientists say initial studies show promising results for a vaccine which could combat a common type of bacteria.
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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 say they have made a breakthrough in transplant technology that could help cure more people with diabetes.
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The first US vaccine against SARS, which swept parts of Asia and around the world in 2003, is ready to be tested in human volunteers, government researchers said on Monday.
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UK scientists have worked out a vaccine to stop Type-1 Diabetes for those with pre-disposition or recent diagonosis. The first human trial of the vaccine will start next year.
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THE first US vaccine against SARS, which swept parts of Asia and around the world last year, is ready to be tested in human volunteers, government researchers said today.
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The first large-scale trial of an HIV vaccine is set to begin in South Africa, it has been announced.
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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.
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Just under 60 percent of diabetes  patients who have received an experimental transplant of  pancreatic cells are able to live without insulin injections a  year later, Canadian and U.S. doctors reported on Tuesday.
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Scientists at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have induced human insulin-producing cells of the pancreas to revert to islet precursor cells.
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The first U.S. vaccine against SARS,  which swept parts of Asia and around the world in 2003, is  ready to be tested in human volunteers, government researchers  said on Monday.
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After the US, Europe, Africa and South America, India is also going to start human trials of an HIV vaccine, the Pune-based National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) said today.
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Millions of adults at high risk of diabetes could ward off the disease by taking a drug commonly used to treat it, according to the largest diabetes prevention study yet conducted.
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Transplants of insulin-making cells have not lived up to the promise they showed in an initial trial.
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The first human trials of a vaccine against Type 1 diabetes were described as âvery excitingâ by one of the lead researchers today.
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A world-class research facility to try to find a cure for Type 1 diabetes is under way at the University of Michigan following a $44-million gift from a former Michigan couple.