For Dr. Daniel Gilada, a husband, physician and soon-to-be father of four, living with Type 1 diabetes had become “overwhelming.” “I felt so bad that it was becoming my new norm,” said Gilada, ...

Doctors at UI Health performed the first islet transplant with Lantidra, the only therapy approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat brittle type 1 diabetes. A 69-year-old man from ...

Islet Transplantation with Blood Vessel Cells Shows Promise to Treat Type 1 Diabetes Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas that can eventually lead to the organ's failure. It's rare in children, but treatment options are few. For local families, a chance ...

Doctors at UI Health performed the first islet transplant with Lantidra, the only therapy approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat brittle type 1 diabetes. A 69-year-old man from ...

For patients with brittle Type 1 diabetes, low blood sugar can be fatal. But CellTrans, spun out of decades of UI Health research, has developed an FDA-approved therapy to transplant insulin-producing ...

Gruessner estimates between five and 20 islet cell transplants will occur at UMC every year. After Galbraith's successful transplant, Gruessner and Rilo completed another successful transplant on a ...

For patients with severe type 1 diabetes, a strict diet and insulin shots are sometimes not enough to sufficiently control their disease. What they need are insulin-producing cells of their own - ...

If you have type 1 diabetes, you may have wondered if a pancreas transplant could cure your condition. In fact, for a select group of people with advanced complications, a pancreas transplant may be ...

First-in-Human Study Provides Evidence that Sana’s Hypoimmune (HIP) Technology Enables Transplanted Islet Cells to Avoid Immune Rejection and Produce Insulin Without Immunosuppression Results ...

A man with type 1 diabetes was cured of the condition after a first-of-its-kind procedure, experts have revealed. The 42-year-old from Sweden was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at just five years old, ...