Posted on 11/09/2004 7:06:38 PM PST by neverdem
I thought you might find this article interesting, i.e. attempting to cure juvenile diabetes without embryonic stem cells.
Just like cancer, diabetes is highly unlikely to be cured, not because it's impossible, but because there is too much money involved.
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The reason for the resistance, Dr. Faustman and some colleagues believe, was simple: her findings, which raise the possibility that an inexpensive, readily available drug might effectively treat Type 1 or juvenile diabetes, challenge widespread assumptions. Many diabetes researchers insist that a cure lies instead in research on stem cells and islet cell transplants.
"The reason for the resistance, Dr. Faustman and some colleagues believe, was simple: her findings, which raise the possibility that an inexpensive, readily available drug might effectively treat Type 1 or juvenile diabetes, challenge widespread assumptions. Many diabetes researchers insist that a cure lies instead in research on stem cells and islet cell transplants. "
It's like evolutionists ... they get a theory in their head and you can't get it out even though evidence defies it.
Also you have medical research welfare - people depend on this welfare to make a living. Plus imagine all the jobs that would be lost if there was a SIMPLE inexpensive cure for this. Then pharm companies would not want ot pursue it either because there would be little profit in it.
I also believe the mystery of cancer could be solved if people were allowed to think out of the box.
"In the meantime, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is financing an independent effort to replicate Dr. Faustman's work. The researcher, Dr. Anita Chong of the University of Chicago, said her studies were still under way. But, she added, "so far, what we have done replicates what she has done."
Well, others can replicate her results ... hope she has a break through with people. She sounds promising.
A California reseach team was working on an enzyme that they thought could cure obesity. This research came our of the Genome project that had been fostered by the elder Bush in the late 80s.
In order to test their enzyme treatment they had to develope experimental mice who were obese and then treat them. they did,(creatre obese mice) they treated them and voi la they were cured!!!! BTW obese mice are diabetic. When their obeseness was cured so was their diabetes. Diabetes can be cured we just need to fund the research. The difficulty is delivering the enzyme. An inhaler spray so that the enzymen can get into the blood stream without going through the digestive tract where it would be "digested" is the trick. And in this treatment there is no stemcell or other tricky procedures. Just organically producing the enzyme.
Thank you for posting this. Our 18 year old son is a Type 1 diabetic and has been for 5 years.
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Thank you also, Dr., for serving our country in Vietnam.
Very interesting, but can we believe anything in the NYT?
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Thank you so much for this post. My son has had diabetes for 11 years. He is 13.
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I'm a Type 1 diabetic and have been since I was nine months old and that is my fear as well. But I have to stay positive. This doctor's research sounds very promising and I hope she continues to receive the financial backing that she needs and that she has the courage to continue her work.
Staggering article. Thanks for posting it.
Pray for her and her work. Diabetes is a terrible disease.
I've been reading the Times for a few decades. The Times slants their articles, or they usually ignore stories if it doesn't fit the party line. For example, they ignore the work of John Lott, the author of "More Guns, Less Crime", and they avoided the Swiftees until they couldn't be ignored any longer.
The author has a reputation to maintain. Maybe the article would have been spiked if the docs in question doing the research were white males. Nonsense like Jayson Blair and his fiction is the exception.
I wihs her well. Diabetes is a horrible disease. I like a lot of people used to think, that it was an easy disease to deal with. It isn't.
Thanks for posting. My 12 year old has type 1 and I atteneded a JDRF function this evening. I pray we will find a cure.
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