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Diabetes cure claimed
In beginning of March 2005, a doctors team from London's King College claimed that using their new cell transplant procedure
the diabted can be cured.
The report tells the story of Richard Lane, a 61 aged man from Bromley, Kent, UK diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. He has taken since 1976. Lanee is first
person in UK with a fully successful islet cell transplant. Using a pancreas of a dead donor, the London doctors team performed
three transplants of islet cells.
Richard Lane hadn't any rejection symptom and his health condition is very good. According to doctors' report he will be soon out
of insulin.
"My wife used to dread me going out of the front door in case there was a call from the ambulance service," Lane said."I am now doing half an hour's brisk walk every day, and I have lost (21 pounds) in six months."
A British consultants in diabetes, professor Stephanie Amiel, said that this experiment opened a big hope for all Type 1 diabetes patients
and could mean end of their insulin dependence.
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