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moon_custafer ([personal profile] moon_custafer) wrote2006-12-15 01:11 pm

This is why Sick Kids rocks

Exciting news in type 1 (juvenile) diabetes research, following work at Sick Kids hospital in Toronto and at the University of Calgary. Essentially they've found that type 1 is not just caused by a faulty immune system, but is related to the nervous system as well - this means they will soon be able to predict who will get it, based on pain response abnormalities, and furthermore they may have found a way to cure it.

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2006-12-17 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Anonymous Don pointed out at last night's Christmas party that this is even more exciting, because other diseases might turn out to work this way as well.