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US doctors are conducting tests on a British man who no longer uses insulin to treat his type 1 diabetes.
Daniel Darkes, from Daventy in Northamptonshire, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes seven years ago. But his recent tests have baffled doctors as his pancreas has shown signs of working properly again. Branded 'Miracle Dan' by his friends, the 30-year-old recently travelled to America so doctors could run tests to further understand what had happened to his body.
Speaking to the Northampton Chronicle and Echo newspaper, he said: "I had numerous tests, about four or five, to confirm the main reason why my pancreas had started producing insulin again.
[...] Mr Darkes says that doctors are now 80 per cent convinced he is cured of the condition, which has never before been reversed. The findings from Mr Darkes' test results are set to be published next week and it is hoped they will help find future treatments for the autoimmune condition.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 22 2017, @02:49PM (1 child)
"Cure" is the desired result of a "treatment". Antibiotics used to "cure" a bacterial infection is still a "treatment".
Understanding a case study of a man who recovered from type I diabetes may lead to treatments in the same way that study of HIV-infected long-term non-progressors (don't progress to AIDS) has led to some limited success (including one curative treatment - the Berlin patient).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Ray_Brown [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday March 24 2017, @05:52AM
But all the same you are admitting treatment is the intermediate step and not the objective.
"I hope in the future we will..." usually denotes desired achievements. Not wishing for something is also the first step for not getting it.
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