Silly Superlatives: ADA’s Scientific Sessions 2011
This past week, dozens of news reports have been posted on the web every 12 hours or so with breaking news (or not) on which new, second generation or rejected and discarded diabetes products are making waves at the Scientific Sessions. Additionally, highlights from promising studies and research have exploded or teetered out on the scene. What follows is the best superlatives from this graduating ADA Scientific Sessions class of 2011.Most Likely to Break the Rules – Dr. Denise Faustman
(or Most Awe Inspiring Scientific Study and Whistle Blower Extraordinaire)
Dr. Denise Faustman, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Immuno-biology Laboratory, presented two abstracts from a clinical trial funded by the Boston-based Iacocca Family Foundation at this past week’s Scientific Sessions, which showed that low doses of an 80-year-old tuberculosis vaccine (Called BCG, and now available generically) temporarily reversed type 1 diabetes in a Phase 1 human trial. BCG induces the immune system to make tumor-necrosis factor, which kills the T-cells that cause the pancreas to stop producing insulin. Here’s more:
Silly Superlatives from the ADA Scientific Sessions 2011
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