by Paul Haskins | Jan 7, 2012 | Reverse Diabetes
An insulin kit from the 1920s. Ninety years ago this week, one of the greatest miracles in medical history took place. Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy lying on his deathbed at Toronto General Hospital, was snatched from the jaws of death with the injection of a...
by Paul Haskins | Jan 7, 2012 | Reverse Diabetes
6 January 2012 Scientists have reassessed the effectiveness of weight loss surgery on tackling type 2 diabetes and found that although it is not a cure, it could significantly improve blood sugar levels. Published in in the British Journal of Surgery, a study by the...
by Paul Haskins | Jan 6, 2012 | Reverse Diabetes
But now, by using a mouse model for diabetes instead, Dr. Dan Frenkel of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Neurobiology, working alongside Prof. Yaniv Assaf and Ph.D. student Hilit Levy, may provide a surprising breakthrough for research into a cure for MS....
by Paul Haskins | Jan 5, 2012 | Reverse Diabetes
Decades before my wife Rachel and I ever met, our family’s story with type 1 diabetes began. Rachel’s cousin was diagnosed with type 1 as a very young boy. Years later, in 1985, Rachel’s sister was diagnosed just before she left for college. Having lived so close...
by Paul Haskins | Jan 4, 2012 | Reverse Diabetes
The research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre awarded to Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London. Obesity is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes. Worldwide, 80 per cent of people...
by Paul Haskins | Jan 4, 2012 | Reverse Diabetes
The device is not implanted in the body but worn almost like a heart rate monitor. It has three parts: a glucose sensor and an insulin pump, which are nothing new, and a tiny specialized computer. The computer is programmed with an algorithm. It reads the sensor and...
