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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. 

Fig. 6 Diabetes cure in mouse with an allogenic homograft of agarose encapsulated islets of Langerhans.

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. 

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. 

While 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. This approach has been adopted thus far with almost 200 patients, with encouraging results. 

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)... 

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. 

A microelectrode alone is not enough it has to be used in connection with a fast scan and not only that, but sometimes with an electrocatalyst. This is the case for single-cell monitoring of insulin and a process called exocytosis in which a bunch of insulin molecules, about 360,000 of them, are deposited, eventually to reach the blood stream and to trigger mechanisms that will consume the glucose that has risen beyond a healthy limit. Remarkably, when one considers the cost to the nation of diabetes, all too little is known about it at this molecular level. To craft a cure, here, too, one must look to the microelectrode and its abilities to obtain sufficient knowledge of events at the level of the individual cell. 

Chronic pain is defined as a pain state that is persistent and for which the cause cannot be removed or otherwise treated and, in the generally accepted course of medical practice, no relief or cure is possible or none has been found after reasonable efforts. Chronic noncancer pain has been getting more attention in recent years— mandated attention. Examples of chronic pain include pain associated with arthritis, neuropathic pain (due to diabetes or other metabolic causes), pain that persists after an injury, and, the most common, low back pain. 

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