BBC News: Transplant Cures Man of Diabetes - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4330717.stm
A 61-year-old man is the first person in the UK to be cured of diabetes by a cell transplant technique. |
Chemists Identify Key Gene In Development Of Type 1 Diabetes - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325230349.htm
Article discusses a proinflammatory protein that may be involved in the cascade of immunological events that leads to the destruction of the pancreas. |
Diabetes Mellitus - http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic581.htm
Covers the background, pathophysiology, frequency, mortality/morbidity, causes, treatment, and medication. By eMedicine. |
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 - A Review - http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic133.htm
Covers the background, pathophysiology, frequency, causes, medication, and treatment of this condition. |
Diabetes: Type 1 - http://www.umm.edu/patiented/articles/what_type_1_diabetes_000009_1.htm
An in-depth report on the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, long term complications, and associated emergency conditions. From the University of Maryland Medical Center. |
Etiology of Type 1 Diabetes - http://www.nafwa.org/iddm.php
Article covers genetics, cow's milk, viral infections, and environmental factors which can influence the destruction of the pancreatic cells that cause this disease. |
HealthAtoZ: Diabetes Type 1 - http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/dc/caz/diab/dia1/dia1_gen_ovw.jsp
Contains an overview on the symptoms, causes, risk factors, tests, and treatment for this disease. |
Joslin Diabetes Center scientists find genetic defects - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/jdc-jdc032205.php
Scientists have found genetic regions that, when defective, allow the immune system to attack the pancreas. The first in a series of mis-steps that lead to type 1 diabetes. |
Type 1 Diabetes: Symptoms, Diagnosis, & Treatments - http://www.endocrineweb.com/diabetes/1diabetes.html
Describes the incidence, causes, hereditary tendencies, and management of this disease. |
Type 1 Diabetics Can Get 'Double Diabetes' From Insulin Resistance, Says University Of Pittsburgh - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/04/030425071101.htm
Article from Science Daily discusses this major cause of heart disease in people. |