Hopes high for a diabetes vaccine

[Northerner]

A vaccine which allows people to live longer before developing Type 1 diabetes could be available within the next 20 years, according to a charity.

Patients who are treated early with a vaccine could make their condition easier to manage and prevent 20 years being cut from their life expectancy, Diabetes UK said.

Dr Alasdair Rankin, director of research, said he was hopeful that a vaccine to stop Type 1 diabetes developing could be found.

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/National-News/Hopes-high-for-a-diabetes-vaccine-2-7278809.xnf

 

[Redkite]

My champagne's staying on ice! In the next 20 years?!!! And it isn't a cure, just a "staving off for a few years" - would be good for families with a known vulnerability, but my son is the only type 1 in the whole extended family, so it would never have occurred to us to get him tested.