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Prevent diabetes in a natural way
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Prevent diabetes in a natural way

For diabetics, the most important thing is to maintain blood sugar at normal levels. Controlling blood sugar means controlling healthy life.

December 14, 2018
New hope for diabetics
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New hope for diabetics

Artificial spleen - a medical breakthrough - has just been successfully developed by British scientists.

December 14, 2018
Pig cell transplantation to treat diabetes
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Pig cell transplantation to treat diabetes

In an experiment in Russia, pig pancreatic cells showed a potential to help diabetics produce insulin. One month after transplantation, a patient was no longer dependent…

December 14, 2018
Treat insulin diabetes from lettuce
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Treat insulin diabetes from lettuce

US scientists have created insulin from lettuce to treat diabetes. After successful mouse tests, this type of insulin is being tested on humans, opening up the opportuni…

December 14, 2018
Pumpkin helps treat diabetes
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Pumpkin helps treat diabetes

Chinese Daily newspaper quoted Chinese scientists as saying that pumpkin extract could help replace or reduce daily insulin injections in patients with type 1 diabetes.

December 14, 2018
Producing insulin from stem cells to treat diabetes
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Producing insulin from stem cells to treat diabetes

British and American scientists say they can use blood-derived stem cells in the umbilical cord of babies to help patients with type 1 diabetes restore their body's abil…

December 14, 2018
Apply stem cell therapy to cure diabetes
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Apply stem cell therapy to cure diabetes

An international team of researchers used stem cells taken from the blood of sugar-poor patients to help them no longer depend on insulin-containing drugs. Scientists sa…

December 14, 2018
Diabetes can be detected by breathing test
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Diabetes can be detected by breathing test

Type 1 diabetes is only at an early stage when the body will not produce insulin chemicals used to break glucose, and as a result, increased blood sugar levels can cause…

December 14, 2018
Oral insulin test to prevent type 1 diabetes
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Oral insulin test to prevent type 1 diabetes

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) says researchers have begun conducting village-based research on oral insulin to help prevent or slow the development of type 1 d…

December 14, 2018