Comments on: New vaccine trials bring hope of cure for diabetes http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2004/12/16/new-vaccine-trials-bring-hope-of-cure-for-diabetes/ for anyone who has been touched by this disease Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:59:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Arlen Roberts http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2004/12/16/new-vaccine-trials-bring-hope-of-cure-for-diabetes/#comment-3764 Arlen Roberts Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:03:53 +0000 http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2004/12/16/new-vaccine-trials-bring-hope-of-cure-for-diabetes/#comment-3764 I have a couple of questions.... Is it a cure, or a preventative? In the US, the drug companies are so huge, will they REALLY allow us to be cured, if, indeed, it really works? The drug companies would be out millions of dollars with the loss of so many diabetics. Endocrinologists are not going to be in favor of this, either. It makes me wonder why the US does not have any research available on this, but the UK does? In the US, the preferred target of research dollars appears to be transplantation. This transplantation is done at the client's expense, and there is a study in Wisconsin that costs $35,000 for the transplant and any subsequent surgeries/injections of additional islet cells. This cost is in addition to transportation costs. However, the drugs on which the transplant recipient must remain for the lifetime are expensive, and the pharaceutical companies still get their money, not in the profits from insulin, but from anti-rejection drugs. Sorry if I appear to ramble. These are just gut reactions to what I HOPE is a truth and success. Joan I have a couple of questions….

Is it a cure, or a preventative?

In the US, the drug companies are so huge, will they REALLY allow us to be cured, if, indeed, it really works? The drug companies would be out millions of dollars with the loss of so many diabetics.

Endocrinologists are not going to be in favor of this, either. It makes me wonder why the US does not have any research available on this, but the UK does?

In the US, the preferred target of research dollars appears to be transplantation. This transplantation is done at the client’s expense, and there is a study in Wisconsin that costs $35,000 for the transplant and any subsequent surgeries/injections of additional islet cells. This cost is in addition to transportation costs. However, the drugs on which the transplant recipient must remain for the lifetime are expensive, and the pharaceutical companies still get their money, not in the profits from insulin, but from anti-rejection drugs.

Sorry if I appear to ramble. These are just gut reactions to what I HOPE is a truth and success.

Joan

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