Diabetes Research-Are We Close To A Cure?
The Scourge of Diabetes and Research for a Cure This article is about Type 1 diabetes, which occurs in childhood or young adulthood and is not diet related. My brother, Russell was struck with Type 1 diabetes when he was 3 years old, shortly after his exposure to chicken pox (from his older school-age siblings). For the next 42 years and 345 days, his life was hellish. When he was a teenager a physician told him he wouldn�t live to be 30. His life can be summed up in numbers; 3 amputations, 3 kidney failures, 1 kidney-pancreas transplant, 3 times a week to the dialysis center, 1 heart surgery, 1 marriage, 1 divorce, 0 children, and one final note on the ventilator. His long suffering and tragic result does not have to be your story or that of your loved one, because the Benaroya Research Institute has been working on a cure for diabetes for decades and is on the verge of a break through. The Benaroya Research Institute is an example of one of the things that is right about U.S. ...