Diabetes is a particularly nasty disease. By itself, it’s the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, killing more than 75,000 Americans every year. But it’s also a major cause of hypertension (high blood pressure), heart attacks, strokes, blindness, kidney disease, and amputations. As such, it contributes to the deaths of several hundred thousand more people, according to the American Diabetes Association.
So you can imagine the excitement when scientists at Harvard University announced that they may have discovered a cure for Type 1 diabetes that could stimulate the body’s ability to produce its own insulin.
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