Is this Major breakthrough in diabetes cure by Dr H L Trivedi ? His 5 patients can be cured totally ?

Ahmedabad | Thursday, Nov 29 2007 IST

A city-based Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC) has claimed a major breakthrough in diabetes cure by transplanting insulin-making stem cells in five diabetic patients.
Addressing reporters here yesterday, IKDRC Director Prof H L Trivedi, said ''We had successfully transplanted stem cells into the liver of five young patients very recently and all of them have started producing insulin.'' He said the IKDRC had successfully conducted transplantation to Palak Dineshbhai Patel (15) from Vadodara, Suniti (25) from Jaipur, Mathak Parsram Soni (19) from Jodhpur, Hemani Yogendra Gautam (14) from Kota in Rajasthan and Pranav Kulinbhai Joshi (28) from Ahmedabad.

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5 patients of Dr Trivedi can be cured totally and are going to escalate in future ?


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Interesting but its too soon to say if they are cured or just have a temporary respite and is therefore not proof of a cure. If they are still OK twenty years on then I would be less cynical.

We diabetics often hear that there is a cure and it usually turns out to be false hope. Also, if I understand the work correctly, it involved people with Type 1 diabetes who have stopped producing insulin. It won't help the majority who are type 2. As many countries do not permit work with stem cells because of the way they are produced, it may never be a cure for all type 1s.

Mind you, it would be nice if it turned out to be an enduring cure with no side effects, limitations and no ethical problems!

This type of ad has been circulating for years.

When I read some study that was done with proper oversight, then I may be interested in finding out more information.

5 patients out of 33 million is not statistically viable or proof of anything other than a conman and a liar that is trying to take advantage of the already vunerable.

Your doctor is a fraud and a thief!

When you have undeniable proof and evidence to support that a you have a measurable baseline over a larger random percentage of the general and diabetic population against a measured improvement against the same with no change in the general population sigma then come and talk to us otherwise you and your quack practitioner are wasting our time.

If this Dr is the real deal he wil produce a baseline of the current situation based on the stats taken before the experiment, he will the do an analysis based on the measurements he takes , recommend improvements using the data to support those findings and then control the whole process to see if his theory works.

He will also make his stats available to independant bodies for testing and evaluation to ensure his data is useable and testable.

This is true science and problem solving through statistics. If this doctor cannot I declare him a fraud, a liar , a thief and the worst of con men.

Experiments have been done with islet cell transplants for some time, but they aren't approved for the general public yet. This doctor is doing something illegal if he IS doing the transplants without final approval and I wouldn't trust him. And the fact that he is transplanting stem cells is even worse! There's very little work that's been done with them, and when they tried it for Parkinson's, a lot of people died!

Ok so first off, there have been a lot of studies like this recently. And in one 15 out of 16 patients are still insulin free up to 36 months now. This is great hope. Stem cell research is a HUGE step toward a cure and is approved for testing in other countries. Most countries actually fund ESCR (embryonic stem cell research) now. However because this is such a small trial group, and not well publicized I would not hold much to it. Also the Kidney is not the right organ for insulin producing cells. It should have been the pancreas. This is on thing that makes me a little more skeptical of this study.

However it is a step in the right direction, we are getting close...but not there yet.