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Tag: Pancreas
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Nation & World
Cancer surgery linked to increased risk of suicide
In a study of U.S. patients who underwent major cancer operations, the incidence of suicide was significantly higher than that observed in the general population.
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Nation & World
First area cell transplantation center
An expansive effort by several Harvard-affiliated units and hospitals has created the first cell transplantation center in the Boston area.
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Nation & World
Potential diabetes treatment advances
Researchers at MIT’s David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, in collaboration with scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and several other institutions, have developed an implantable device that in mice shielded insulin-producing beta cells from immune system attack for six months — a substantial proportion of life span.
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Nation & World
Artificial pancreas system aimed at type 1 diabetes mellitus
The University of Virginia School of Medicine and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed an artificial pancreas system designed to help regulate blood sugar levels of individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
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Nation & World
Potential diabetes breakthrough
Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have discovered a hormone that holds promise for a dramatically more effective treatment of type 2 diabetes, a metabolic illness afflicting an estimated 26 million Americans.
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Nation & World
New hope against diabetes
Results from a phase 1 drug trial by Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers showed that a decades-old tuberculosis drug knocked out the autoimmune cells that attack diabetic patients’ insulin-producing cells, followed by indications that pancreatic function was improving, albeit transiently.
