How can I get rid of diabetes permanently? Can diabetes be cured completely
Can my diabetes be cured? Things are looking up. Scientists are working on a number of promising possibilities. A mechanical pancreas. What they're aiming for is one about three inches in diameter, approximately the size of a heart pacemaker, that can be implanted. That's a pretty small package to contain all the good things they need to put in it: a glucose sensor to report the blood sugar level, a laboratory to analyze the findings, a computer to calculate how much insulin is needed, a reservoir of insulin that can be released in the proper quantity into the bloodstream, a pump, a fail-safe device to counteract the release of too much insulin, and a power supply for the whole operation. By way of a progress report, we can tell you that Dr. J. Michael Soeldner of the Joslin Research Laboratory is perfecting an implantable sensor that reads blood sugar levels and sends a signal to a transmitter to activate an insulin pump. At present the sensor has been reduced to t...