For Dr. Daniel Gilada, a husband, physician and soon-to-be father of four, living with Type 1 diabetes had become “overwhelming.” “I felt so bad that it was becoming my new norm,” said Gilada, ...

UI Health doctors performed a historic "first" in diabetes care last week when they transplanted islet cells into a patient — and got an insurer to say they'd cover it. The Chicago teaching hospital ...

Stem cell-derived pancreatic islets are being studied as a rich transplantable source for insulin production, a therapeutic for type 1 diabetes that overcomes the need to obtain islet cells from ...

Islet Transplantation with Blood Vessel Cells Shows Promise to Treat Type 1 Diabetes Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the ...

Irvine-based biotech company Eledon Pharmaceutical announced updated data from its islet cell transplant study.

Doctors at UI Health performed the first islet transplant with Lantidra, the only therapy approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat brittle type 1 diabetes. A 69-year-old man from ...

A man with type 1 diabetes was cured of the condition after a first-of-its-kind procedure, experts have revealed. The 42-year-old from Sweden was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at just five years old, ...

An investigational antibody could reduce the toxicity associated with immune suppression in islet cell transplantation for type 1 diabetes (T1D), according to new preliminary data. Six people with T1D ...

Multiple Americans have been cured of their diabetes after a groundbreaking trial has let them put down their insulin for good, researchers have announced. A team at the University of Chicago Medicine ...

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