Recently, Type 1 diabetes hit the headlines with the media reporting that the ‘BCG vaccine can reverse Type 1 diabetes to almost undetectable levels’. Our research communications officer Lucy Trelfa takes a look behind the headlines. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Scientists…
Tweet Share “Mum,what would you do if there was a cure for diabetes?” “I would run down the street naked” Oh, mother. You are funny. She probably wouldn’t do that of course, but from that I gather that she would be over the moon. As would my dad. As would the rest of my family.…
Tweet Share I have Type 1 diabetes and, currently, there is no cure. So it’s with me all the time. I can never forget about it: I am always responsible for my diabetes. Don’t get me wrong, most of the time it’s not an issue but, sometimes, I’d just like someone else to take responsibility.…
Tweet Share They have found a cure for Diabetes! That’s right, a cure. Sorry, in my excitement I failed to say that ‘they’ is in fact the Dr Zhang Clinic in Crouch End. The Chinese only speaking Dr, whom was never explicitly identified as the eponymous Dr Zhang, through her interpreter told me, to my…