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 ...

A combination blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely prevented or cured Type 1 diabetes in mice in a study by Stanford Medicine ...

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 ...

Wenzhou Medical University researchers have reimagined the spleen as a viable site for islet transplantation, enabling long-term diabetes control without the burden of full immunosuppression.

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 ...

UCSF Health transplant specialists recently performed an innovative, minimally invasive pancreatic islet transplant designed to enable a patient with Type 1 diabetes to become insulin independent. The ...

UI Health doctors performed a historic "first" in diabetes care last week when they transplanted islet cells into a patient — and got an insurer to say they'd cover it. The Chicago teaching hospital ...

For the first time, researchers have transplanted gene-edited donor islet cells that secrete insulin in a person with type 1 diabetes (T1D) without the use of immunosuppression. The study subject, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine ...

The currently approved islet-transplant method infuses islets into a vein in the liver. This invasive procedure requires the long-term use of immune-suppressing drugs to prevent islet rejection, ...