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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
SPECIALISTS are calling on the nation's health ministers to commit to funding a life-saving transplant program - the closest thing to a cure for type 1 diabetes.
The revolutionary program injects insulin-producing clusters of pancreatic islet cells extracted from a donor's organ through a portal vein into the liver.
SA program leader Associate Professor Toby Coates of the University of Adelaide says it can be lifesaving for patients whose blood sugar drops unexpectedly, which can cause coma, or death.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/na...es-under-control/story-fndo471r-1226461945585
(Australia)
The revolutionary program injects insulin-producing clusters of pancreatic islet cells extracted from a donor's organ through a portal vein into the liver.
SA program leader Associate Professor Toby Coates of the University of Adelaide says it can be lifesaving for patients whose blood sugar drops unexpectedly, which can cause coma, or death.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/na...es-under-control/story-fndo471r-1226461945585
(Australia)