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Prediabetes is a condition that precedes type 2 diabetes. Scientists now show how and by which mechanisms prediabetes can be brought into remission, i.e., into a state in which blood glucose levels return to normal. 1,105 individuals with prediabetes underwent a lifestyle intervention involving a healthy diet and increased physical activity for a duration of one year. Responders were the participants whose fasting blood glucose, 2-hour glucose, and HbA1c levels had normalized within twelve months, indicating remission. Non-responders were individuals who did not achieve remission despite losing weight. It was not weight loss that distinguished those who went into remission,...

Anew cancer therapy developed at Jerusalem’s Hadassah-University Medical Center had a 90% response rate in a new clinical trial, with over half of patients going into total remission. The CAR-T therapy — which arms the body’s own immune cells to fight cancer — was able to send multiple myeloma, an extremely deadly cancer that impacts the immune system, into remission. The therapy is the result of years worth of experiments conducted by the hospital’s bone-marrow transplant and immunotherapy department, the Jerusalem Post reported. “We have evidence of a very positive overall response rate with minimal side effects, and they are...

Patients with a particular kind of cancer and a particular kind of mutation received a new therapy called dostarlimab and had results not seen in a cancer trial before. To be sure, the trial — led by doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering and backed by drug maker GlaxoSmithKline — has only completed treatment of 12 patients, with a specific cancer in its early stages and with a rare mutation as well. But the results, reported Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine and the New York Times, were still striking enough to prompt multiple physicians to tell the paper...

Acancer treatment has shown astounding results in a small clinical trial. All of the treated patients, who had a specific form of mid-stage rectal cancer, have since experienced complete remission. Though the findings are based on a sample size of just 18 people, they could hold important implications for treating these particular cancers. The results of the Phase II trial were published over the weekend in the New England Journal of Medicine . The study involved researchers at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as well as Yale University, and it was sponsored by the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline. The trial...

Researchers of a new study say that two patients with leukemia continued to be in remission a decade after they were first infused with the experimental CAR T-cell therapy that turned their immune cells into cancer-killing cells.In 2010, Doug Olson and Bill Ludwig, participated in an experimental phase 1 clinical trial of the immunotherapy, after their cancer had mutated and no longer responded to the standard treatments. Both were battling chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a type of blood and bone marrow cancer. Olsen was diagnosed in 1996 and Lugwig in 2000.Dr. Carl H. June, a senior author, and director of...

People with type 2 diabetes should be considered in remission after sustaining normal blood sugar levels for three months or more, according to a new consensus statement from the Endocrine Society, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), Diabetes UK and the American Diabetes Association, and co-published in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Diabetologia, Diabetic Medicine and Diabetes Care. pulation has diabetes, and these numbers continue to rise. People with type 2 diabetes can achieve "remission" by sustaining normal blood sugar levels for at least three months without taking diabetes medication. There is still a lot of...

People with type 2 diabetes can achieve "remission" by sustaining normal blood sugar levels for at least three months without taking diabetes medication. There is still a lot of uncertainty around how long remission will last and what factors are associated with a relapse. A person may require ongoing support to prevent a relapse or a hyperglycemic episode, and the long-term effects of remission on mortality, heart health and quality of life are not well understood. The authors developed the following criteria to help clinicians and researchers evaluate and study diabetes remission using more consistent terminology and methods: 1. Remission...

Model of insulin inhibitory receptor ‘inceptor’ (in black) desensetizing the insulin recptor (in color) on a pancreatic beta cell. Insulin in blue. Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München ======================================================== Researchers have discovered a novel and druggable insulin inhibitory receptor, named inceptor. The latest study from Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, the Technical University of Munich, and the German Center for Diabetes Research is a significant milestone for diabetes research as the scientific community celebrates 100 years of insulin and 50 years of insulin receptor discovery. The blocking of inceptor function leads to an increased sensitization of the insulin signaling pathway in pancreatic beta cells....

Apologies if this is cross posted on the wrong board... While surfing around yesterday, I saw this post... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547014/posts?page=1,50 I got to thinking, which was a big mistake cause it started me crying. You see, I've lost more than 7 family members to Cancer...the most recent was my sweet Niece. She was only 31 and left behind 2 awesome little boys, and devastated my Sister, as well. I have friends that have lost loved ones too, and some that are still living in fear of the day that the test comes back with bad old news...again. Smile is a friend...

Leukemia Pill designed to help patients not cured by a successful drug know as Gleevec works better than doctors had hoped. Rumors of the new drug's success have been leaking for months,because cancer experts are so excited by the results.

To all Freeper prayer warriors....Ethan Rossi is in remission from his leukemia!!!!! God is good! He had a bone marrow biopsy today and it is doing what it is supposed to do....no bad cells at all!!!He does,however, have meningitis. The good news about this is that his body is responding the way it should to infection. Keep up the good work!!!

Freeper crabbie aka "Carol" has the following tale and I asked if it was okay if I sent it up to the prayer chain. Re: Prayers From crabbie | 06/28/2004 10:14:31 PM EDT I was hoping that you would offer. (Surgery for ovarian cancer 4/02, chemo from 5/02 through 8/03 with remission from 7/02 through 2/04. Now the recurrence in 3/04 with weekly chemo since 4/16/04). Prayer has gotten me through this far and kept me very hopeful and calm. I truly believe that He will keep me either cured or in a series of remissions so that I will...