Cure?

[Raymond]

Anyone seen this yet? Hope this link works. If not, it's the front page story in the Scottish Daily Express

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/275595

 

[imtrying]

I gave up reading about cures and getting excited about 2 years after I was diagnosed!! lol but afraid I don't know whether this is anything significant or not.

 

[Northerner]

Yes, I put it in the News section yesterday 🙂 It's not a cure, it's something that at some vague point in the future might be able to stop diabetes developing, so not much use to any of us now, or in the future. It also only seems to work in female mice. Yet another overinflated claim for the tiniest speck of success in another species (can you guess that I've seen far too many of these? 🙄)

It's good that the research is being done, but claims such as this and the overblown reporting in the tabloid press is hugely misleading

 

[AlisonM]

It's a month past the second anniversary of my diagnosis and I've seen dozens of these in that time. I many cases the 'supposed cure' is at least ten years off, if they can get it past the human trial stage and past the watchdogs too. Most others are pie in the sky and never likely to provide any real progress. Almost all of them are messing with things they don't understand. Then too, there's our dear pals, The Meejah. They find these reports and big them up in the headlines, but when you read what's actually going on, you realise that the supposed cure is years away if in fact it is a cure.

I'm a cynic when it comes to these things of course, having been a 'guinea pig' for the medical profession most of my life as they tried to 'cure' my eczema (it went away on it's own in the end).

 

[Raymond]

It's a shame the media feel they need to sensationalise a topic such as this. They obviously don't take into account the people that it affects directly and are more concerned with selling their paper. I'll be more cynical in the future.

 

[Caroline]

I was diagnosed in 2006 and have read an awfull lot about 'cures' since then. If we had ?1 for every cure we'd be rich, still have diabetes but we'd be rich...