Dallas

Mar 17, 2005 3 Replies

Last Saturday Baylor hospital received permission from the FDA to do a Eyelet Cell transplant.

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Today on the Dallas news they are reporting she is doing fine and is now making insulin on her own, where as she was a die hard type 1. Maybe there's some hope after all.



Sorry if this is old news, I didn't see any headers where this might be the topic.



I got one to say: HELL YEAH!!!!


This is really cool. I hope it works.

Brent

I was very cursorily involved in islet cell transplant research years ago. My understanding is that it's most effective for Type I in pediatric pts:

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here's another one. It looks like the real issue are the long term autoimmune problems-

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