pancreas

Hi everyone. I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes about 10 years ago and reversed it with weight loss. Since then my HBAC1 results have always been in the early 40's. For the past 6 months I have had swelling of my upper stomach. Then for the past 3 weeks I have had diarreah, fever...

A young girl from Bahrain has been given a new lease of life after receiving treatment from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London (GOSH) for hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia (HH). Sarah was born with a congenital complex overgrowth syndrome called Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, which occurs in...

NanOlogy LLC, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical development company, today announced the first patient has been enrolled in a clinical trial of NanoPac® (nanoparticle paclitaxel) sterile suspension for treatment of mucinous cystic neoplasms (MCNs) of the pancreas. The Phase 2 dose-rising trial...

Doctors at the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS Hospitals) performed a robotic surgery to remove a tumour from a 27-year-old female’s pancreas. The 6x7 cms size Solid Pseudopapillary Epithelial Neoplasm (SPEN) tumourwas believed to be the largest to date to be removed using robotic...

A 12-year old South Carolina girl with Type 1 diabetes and what her parents describe as an intense allergy to insulin therapy is set to undergo a rarely performed whole pancreas transplant at the University of Minnesota. Jack and Tiffanie Reeves, parents of Emmy, say they will take her on a...

Japanese researchers have accelerated studies using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells in the hope of creating human organs inside animal bodies, with a series of findings reported since last year that could mark a step toward realizing the technology. The advancements have heightened...

A 50-year-old man from Pennsylvania was recently admitted into the Mercy Catholic Medical Center after vomiting unusual amounts of blood. According to the doctors, the patient accused severe abdominal pains of two months and admitting to drinking almost half a liter of vodka per day for the past...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have managed to produce the first molecular map of the genes that are active in the various cells of the human pancreas. They have also revealed differences in genetic activity between people with type 2 diabetes and healthy controls. The study, which is...

Scientists in the United States are trying to grow human organs inside pigs. They have injected human stem cells into pig embryos to produce human-pig embryos known as chimeras. The embryos are part of research aimed at overcoming the worldwide shortage of transplant organs. The team from...

A scientist leading the largest study of DNA from the pancreas will be continuing his research at the University of Lincoln. Dr Matthew Simmonds is currently collating the largest ever collection of DNA from pancreas transplant donors and recipients. The biomedical scientist specialises in...

Scientists can now see exactly how much insulin was present in the pancreas of a living animal. The researchers genetically engineered a mouse that makes the protein that the body uses to produce human insulin, called proinsulin. By engineering the protein as a fluorescent protein, it reacted in...

For DePaul Professor Judith Rae-Ross, 70, managing diabetes for over 20 years proved difficult most days as she struggled to compose herself through class teachings. “I remember asking my students a question one day, then feeling the ground underneath me move, and my head began to feel light,”...

Why would a bacteria-killing protein be present in an area of the body that is not normally exposed to bacteria, like the pancreas? Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa puzzled over this question for some time, until they eventually discovered that the protein in...

Although insulin-producing cells are found in the endocrine tissue of the pancreas, a new mouse study suggests that abnormalities in the exocrine tissue could cause cell non-autonomous effects that promotes diabetes-like symptoms. These findings argue the existence of an unknown factor from the...

What an incredible transformation. A protein used to help bones mend can also force pancreatic cells into producing insulin. The discovery could help people with type 1 diabetes produce their own insulin without having to take daily injections. In type 1 diabetes, beta cells in the pancreas...

As many of you know, I'm diabetic due to having my pancreas removed. I had a rare type of pancreatic cancer - a neuroendocrine tumour. Survival rates for pancreatic cancer have not changed over the last 30 years. This is, I'm sure you'll agree, a disgrace. Pancreatic cancer doesn't usually...