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BBC News
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A pioneering treatment for diabetes is being rolled out across the country with experts believing it could eventually lead to a cure.
Six centres are receiving nearly �10m of government funding to offer transplants of insulin-producing cells.
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Times Online
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Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop taking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again.
In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes we..
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MSNBC
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An unexpected number of deaths among patients receiving intense therapy to lower their blood sugar forced the National Institutes of Health to abruptly cut short part of a major study on diabetes and heart disease.
The therapy was aimed at reducing to..
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SF Gate
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A talking cure for depression called cognitive-behavioral therapy appears to cancel the risk of suicidal thinking or behavior associated with taking antidepressant medication, according to the most comprehensive and long-running study to date of depressio..
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Washington Post
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Oncologists do not usually need bodyguards when they present scientific data at a medical symposium.
But when Howard I. Scher of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Maha Hussain of the University of Michigan spoke at a recent meeting of the..
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BBC News
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UK scientists believe in the future they will be curing babies in the womb of serious diseases with the use of gene therapy.
The work is controversial not just because of the ethics but also safety concerns.
A few years ago France and the US suspend..
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MSNBC
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For nearly a decade, while serving as an elected official and working as an attorney, Massachusetts state Sen. Bob Antonioni struggled with depression, although he didn't know it. Most days, he attended Senate meetings and appeared on behalf of clients at..
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