Diabetes treatment has been found in stem cell therapy alternative to insulin injections. In 2010 the over-concentration of sugar in blood and pancreas, can be fought in new ways. Scientific studies have shown that autologous stem cell transplants are effective in diabetes mellitus. On one side is the remarkable study in universities in Brazil and Chicago from 2004 to 2008, where type I diabetes, also called insulin. On the other hand the private investigations and treatments performed in private clinics such as the German X-cell that has treated patients with diabetes mellitus type I and II with more than 50% successful in its results. So far this therapy does not produce a complete cure but an improvement of symptoms for a few years so they can be reduced or eliminated insulin injections because the pancreas of the patient regains some of its functions.
The stem cells for transplantation are collected from the patient’s own bone marrow, so you do not need a pool of blood in a bank of umbilical cord blood. Nor is there any impediment ethics if the person concerned prior consent, for the moment the main barriers are economic. (more…)