Curing diabetes

While the comparison is by no means perfect, the best way to conceive of what this combined therapy does is to think of it in terms like insulin for a diabetic. No one claims that insulin cures diabetes, but it enables the diabetic to lead a useful and happy life. Until such time as medicine starts using highly sophisticated electromagnetic and photo-biological medicine, the disease will not be cured. But, as in any war, you have to contain the enemy before you can beat him. 

VO(acac)(Tp)] [VO(acac)(Tp )], and [VO(acac)(Tp )]-CH3CN were prepared and characterized by IR, UV-vis, and NMR techniques. The toxicity of these complexes was tested and it has been reported that [VO(acac)(Tp )]-CH3CN has feasibility to cure diabetes.239,240 Cytotoxic effects of [V0(02)(Tp)(pzH)] and [V0(02)(pzTp)(pzH)] on 3T3 cell proliferation have been also reported.81... 

From this study, it became clear that insulin releasing cells prepared by the gene transfection could control glucose metabolism of the diabetic mouse for a long period if cells were implanted in an appropriate form. Further studies, such as how to control cell growth, how to control the immune reaction and how to remove the implants when adverse effects are observed, are needed to apply gene therapy to clinically curing diabetes. 

Diabetes is a major public health problem and the development of new therapies that are able to improve glycemia management and even to cure diabetes is of great interest. In a study designed to evaluate the effect of sinapic acid on physiological and biochemical parameters in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats, oral administration of sinapic acid for a period of 35 days restored aU these biochemical parameters to near normal [69]. 

Invent medicines that go beyond treatment to provide cure or prevention of life-limiting conditions and diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer s disease, mental illness, and diabetes. 

We still need much better medicines to cure cancer, heart disease, stroke, and Alzheimer s disease. We need better drugs to deal with obesity, diabetes, arthritis, and schizophrenia. The treatments of diabetes, arthritis, and mental defects such as schizophrenia or manic depression are not yet cures, just ways to keep the symptoms under control. Cures are needed. Insights from genetics may help guide us toward elegant and rational cures, but we will also make use of screens to identify natural products and libraries of randomly generated synthetic compounds (combinatorial chemistry). A semi-empirical approach may be the best hope over the next two decades to yield drugs to alleviate these diseases. 

Although infusion pumps can go some way towards mimicking normal control of blood insulin levels, transplantation of insulin-producing pancreatic cells should effectively cure the diabetic patient, and research aimed at underpinning this approach continues. 

There s no cure for diabetes yet. However, there are ways to alleviate its symptoms. In 1986, a National Institute of Health panel... 

Investors love new ideas, because they do not have any of the warts and scars that inevitably collect on tested pharmaceutical concepts. People who invest in biotech are looking for medical breakthroughs that can go where no drug molecule has gone before. Perhaps this enthusiasm derives from the natural hope that, finally, a cure for cancer or diabetes or atherosclerosis will be found. It certainly taps the same optimism that the... 

The potential contribution of stem cells to medical treatment lies in then-capability to differentiate and grow into normal, healthy cells. Using pluripotent stem cells, scientists are devising means to culture them in the laboratories and coax them to grow into various specialized cells. Rather than gene therapy, with stem cells we have the potential of cell therapy to repair our diseased tissues and organs. This will circumvent the lack of donor organs. Stem cells also provide the possibility for healthy cells to cure disabilities such as strokes, Parkinson s disease, and diabetes. 

Insulin is not a cure for diabetes. Patients with type 1 diabetes must take insulin throughout life. Proper treatment includes adherence to a diet and a program of physical exercise. There are serious long-term sequelae to diabetes if blood sugar levels are not adequately controlled blindness (retinopathy), kidney failure (nephropathy), and microvascular disease that can lead to heart attacks or amputations. 

Just as our best scientists have been working for decades to find a cure for cancer, the cancer of drugs is now an illness in need of a medical cure. This line of thinking was made explicit in the 2001 National Drug Control Strategy report, which reported [j)]ust like other chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and cancer, for which medications have been developed, drug addiction is a disease that merits medication for its treatment. " ... 

Well, because it s a biochemical thing. It s like diabetes or high blood pressure. You can t cure yourself. You can deal with it and cope with it. I mean, type-two diabetes, , I mean, I ll always be a diabetic. So yeah, I just feel that with a psychiatric illness you don t get cured from it. You learn how to cope with it, (female health advocate, aged 57)... 

Banbar, a worthless cure for diabetes that the old law protected Lash-Lure, an eyelash dye that blinded some women. . . numerous examples of foods deceptively packaged or labeled Radithor, a radium-containing tonic that sentenced users to a slow and painful death and the Wilhide Exhaler, which falsely promised to cure tuberculosis and other pulmonary diseases.1... 

Millions of people with type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus inject themselves daily with pure insulin to compensate for the lack of production of this critical hormone by their own pancreatic fi cells. Insulin injection is not a cure for diabetes, but it allows people who otherwise would have died young to lead long and productive lives. The discovery of insulin, which began with an accidental observation, illustrates the combination of serendipity and careful experimentation that led to the discovery of many of the hormones. 

Taking precautions to prevent proteolysis, Banting and Best (later aided by biochemist J. B. Collip) succeeded in December 1921 in preparing a purified pancreatic extract that cured the symptoms of experimental diabetes in dogs. On January 25,1922 (just one month later ), their insulin preparation was injected into Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy severely ill with diabetes mellitus. Within days, the levels of ketone bodies and glucose in Thompson s urine dropped dramatically the extract saved his life. In 1923, Banting and MacLeod won the Nobel Prize for their isolation of insulin. Banting immediately announced that he would share his prize with Best MacLeod shared his with Collip. 

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