A team at the University of Alberta tested the procedure, called islet transplantation, on seven patients with severe Type 1 Diabetes, also known as Juvenile Diabetes. All of them have been able to maintain normal blood sugar without taking insulin shots. It's worth some of your money to spend on that. They will receive islet transplants over the next 18 months.
Children are ineligible for the trial.
Some 1 million Americans have Type 1 Diabetes, and approximately 25 percent of them are minorities. The immune systems of Type 1 Diabetes sufferers destroy pancreatic cells that secrete insulin, which is needed to convert sugar into energy.