New study on drug therapy to treat auto-immune diseases

[LucySW]

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2014...o-switching-off-ms-and-diabetes-95377933.html

 

[Alanp35]

Let us all hope that this leads to other crippling AI disease. I've almost got a full house

 

[LucySW]

More detail on this:

http://www.iflscience.com/health-an...scover-effective-strategy-switch-autoimmunity

 

[phoenix]

Thank you, it sounds interesting.
The full paper is open access (but on a quick look, very technical and hard for us non specialists to understand)
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140903/ncomms5741/full/ncomms5741.html
I know that they've been trying GAD 65 as a therapy; I think that would be called an antigen specific therapy. Unfortunately it hasn't, as yet been very successful. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22296077

 

[hadi123]

Since my diagnosis last September I have followed my diabetic consultant and D-nurse specialist advice and through better diet and monitoring my sugar levels prior to eating managed to get my sugar levels just under NHS guidelines. The dr & nurses have been great, and from what I have established since, all their advise tallies with NHS diabetes guidelines...... But......

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[prabhashanie george]

Let us all hope that this leads to other crippling AI disease. I've almost got a full house

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