New drug for Type 1 diabetes ?developed?

[Northerner]

Scientists claim to have achieved a major breakthrough in the fight against Type 1 diabetes by developing a treatment which would save the sufferers from a lifetime of insulin injections.

In Type 1 diabetes, the patient?s faulty immune system targets the pancreas. Without treatment, this causes so much damage that it no longer naturally produces insulin to prevent blood sugar rising to levels that become dangerous. Without regular injections, the patient will fall into a coma and die.

http://www.thehindu.com/health/medicine-and-research/article2406444.ece

 

[FM001]

We can only hope that this drug becomes widely available should the trials be successful, what I didn't see mentioned was the possible side effects.