Stem cell experiment lets diabetics forgo insulin, transplants performed on diabetics in Brazil

MS NBC ^ | 04.10.07

[Coleus]

Thirteen young diabetics in Brazil have ditched their insulin shots and need no other medication thanks to a risky, but promising treatment with their own stem cells — apparently the first time such a feat has been accomplished. Though too early to call it a cure, the procedure has enabled the young people, who have type 1 diabetes, to live insulin-free so far, some as long as three years. The treatment involves stem cell transplants from the patients’ own blood.

“It’s the first time in the history of type 1 diabetes where people have gone with no treatment whatsoever ... no medications at all, with normal blood sugars,” said study co-author Dr. Richard Burt of Northwestern University’s medical school in Chicago.While the procedure can be potentially life-threatening, none of the 15 patients in the study died or suffered lasting side effects. But it didn’t work for two of them. Larger, more rigorous studies are needed to determine if stem cell transplants could become standard treatment for people with the disease once called juvenile diabetes. It is less common than type 2 diabetes, which is associated with obesity.

The hazards of stem cell transplantation also raise questions about whether the study should have included children. One patient was as young as 14. Dr. Lainie Ross, a medical ethicist at the University of Chicago, said the researchers should have studied adults first before exposing young teens to the potential harms of stem cell transplant, which include infertility and late-onset cancers. In addition, Ross said that the study should have had a comparison group to make sure the treatment was indeed better than standard diabetes care.

[Coleus]

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[Coleus]

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[The Blitherer]

Wow, so what’s the score now? Last I checked it was something like Adult Stem Cells: 75, Embryonic Stem Cells: 0

[Paleo Conservative]

Thirteen young diabetics in Brazil have ditched their insulin shots and need no other medication thanks to a risky, but promising treatment with their own stem cells

This is blaspheme. Everyone knows the left wing catechism that only embryonic stem cells are medically beneficial.

[neverdem]

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[Sun]

More good news bump!

I heard this on ABC News tonight. Has anybody heard it on CBS or NBC?

[Coleus]

I heard it on NBC.

[Sun]

Thanks. Glad NBC covered it, too.

Also, closely related aside: I heard on Jay Seculo’s radio show that the first mom who adopted a frozen embryo now has a little 7-year old daughter.

There have been around 125 births from frozen embryos, and also, about ten women are currently pregnant from adopting a frozen embryo.

More info at snowflakes.org.

[syriacus]

Neat! This gives hope to a lot of people.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Everyone knows the left wing catechism that only embryonic stem cells are medically beneficial.

File along with eugenics, lysenkoism and global warming - politically loaded science.