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Stopping Type 1 Diabetes.(Brief Article)

Newsweek International

| December 30, 2002 | Underwood, Anne | COPYRIGHT 2002 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The long-term effects of diabetes can be devastating--nerve damage, blindness, kidney failure, cardiovascular disease. But a radical new treatment may be able to halt the progression of one form of the disease. In a small study in The New England Journal of Medicine this year, Dr. Kevan Herold of Columbia University managed to retard progression of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes in a dozen newly diagnosed patients. What's more, he stopped it for an entire year with just two weeks of treatment.

The troublemaker in this form of diabetes is the body's immune system. Instead of attacking viruses and bacteria, it engages in a sort of misguided mission creep, destroying insulin-producing beta cells in ...

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