Pharmaceutical Repurposing Yields Potential Diabetes Treatment

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Two drugs approved by the FDA for other uses have a synergistic relationship that may reduce the need for insulin shots among patients with Type 1 diabetes, researchers at the University of Florida (UF) have discovered.

Through approximately eight years of research that progressed from mouse models to human trials, UF scientists found that a pharmaceutical cocktail made from Thymoglobulin and Neulasta appears to restart the body’s ability to produce insulin.

http://www.mdnews.com/news/2014_11/...sing-yields-potential-diabetes-treatment.aspx
 
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