diabetes
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Could Gene Therapy One Day Cure Diabetes?
In type 1 diabetes, the body engages in warfare with itself, the immune system mistakenly treating the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas as a harmful invader, destroying the cells along with the body’s ability to regulate sugar. Typically diagnosed in youth, it has no cure, and patients face a lifetime of insulin injections and complications.
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New Evidence Suggests Doctors Are Misdiagnosing A Third Type Of Diabetes
The common understanding of diabetes mellitus includes two types: Type 1 and type 2. But there’s a third type that’s been around for a while you may not have even heard of – and some doctors think it’s being misdiagnosed.
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Harvard Biologist Retracts Groundbreaking Diabetes ‘Breakthrough’
A Harvard research team led by biologist Douglas Melton has retracted a promising research paper following multiple failed attempts to reproduce the original findings.
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We Can Finally Stop Demonising Butter
An analysis by Tufts University researchers has failed to find a link between butter consumption and cardiovascular disease. And hallelujah to that — the ongoing hysteria against butter can now finally come to an end.