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To: aimhigh

Hmmm... I work for a company that produces insulin pumps. I also have a son with type 1 diabetes.

Do you think I would deep six a cure for diabetes just to save my job?


4 posted on 05/30/2013 9:03:14 PM PDT by toast
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To: toast

I have two kids with type 1. I’m guessing the CEOs do not have children with this disease.


5 posted on 05/30/2013 10:00:17 PM PDT by Lizavetta (You get what you tolerate)
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To: toast

There was a study out of Canada where they neutralized pain-nerves of the pancreas and stopped diabetes. From the National Post:

December 15, 2006. Tom Blackwell, National Post
In a discovery that has stunned even those behind it, scientists at a Toronto hospital say they have proof the body’s nervous system helps trigger diabetes, opening the door to a potential near-cure of the disease that affects millions of Canadians.
Diabetic mice became healthy virtually overnight after researchers injected a substance to counteract the effect of malfunctioning pain neurons in the pancreas. “I couldn’t believe it,” said Dr. Michael Salter, a pain expert at the Hospital for Sick Children and one of the scientists. “Mice with diabetes suddenly didn’t have diabetes any more.”

Shhhhh . . . . . .


6 posted on 05/31/2013 6:28:15 AM PDT by aimhigh (Guns do not kill people. Abortion kills people.)
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