"J. R. Carroll" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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Other than that, she is doing well enough. Ive gained a bit of
respect. She keeps a positive attitude most of the time, even though
she is home alone 4-5 nights a week. This week, she will be home alone
10 straight days. Well..the dogs are there.
They finally diagnosed her as having Factor 5/Leiden
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Holy cow. I don't think I've ever heard of that many contrary
indications
and interactions. She must be pretty tough to put up with it.
That's an example of where medicine is going. Just trying to balance
those
things probably would have been impossible ten or fifteen years ago. So,
it's easy to hate Big Pharma, but they're keeping a lot of people alive.
Ed,
There was a guy here in LA doing venom studies in an attempt to treat
diabetes - Dr. John Eng at UCLA.
Are you familiar with his work?
The drug they were testing had a great deal of promise and among its
benefits were weight loss and stimulated insulin production.
Hi, John. No, I haven't heard of this work, but it sounds like something for
type II diabetes. There's a lot of that going on all the time, and I usually
ignore it because it doesn't relate to what my son and I have. There is no
way to "stimulate" insulin production in a juvenile diabetic, known as a
type I. The cells for producing insulin are long gone. The research for type
I is focused mainly on replacing those cells, with human or animal cells.
It's a hot prospect for fetal stem-cell research.
I am pretty sure you know your way around both the disease and the state
of
the art in treatment and yes, there is more behind this message than an
idle
search for interesting info.
Again, 9 out of 10 diabetics are type II, or "adult onset." This is a
complex of several related conditions. Type I is the type that one usually
gets in childhood. It involves complete destruction of the cells that
produce insulin.
Do you have someone close to you who has recently been diagnosed with
diabetes?
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Ed Huntress