Malaria Vaccine - good news for once!

[Greg Anos]

<Shrug> That could have been done 50 years ago. The world abandoned the task in 1969.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Greg Anos

<Shrug> That could have been done 50 years ago. The world abandoned the task in 1969.

And why is that relevant to this thread? A vaccine against the infectious agent is a very different approach to just killing all the mosquitos.

[SteveEisenberg]

I looked for a good news thread to share this article by an outstanding science author, and hope this will do:

A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? For One Man, It Seems to Have Worked

Shelton, now 64, may be the first person cured of the disease with a new treatment that has experts daring to hope that help may be coming for many of the 1.5 million Americans suffering from Type 1 diabetes.

“It’s a whole new life,” Shelton said. “It’s like a miracle.”

Diabetes experts were astonished but urged caution. The study is continuing and will take five years, involving 17 people with severe cases of Type 1 diabetes. It is not intended as a treatment for the more common Type 2 diabetes.

“We’ve been looking for something like this to happen literally for decades,” said Dr. Irl Hirsch, a diabetes expert at the University of Washington who was not involved in the research. He wants to see the result, not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, replicated in many more people. He also wants to know if there will be unanticipated adverse effects and if the cells will last for a lifetime or if the treatment would have to be repeated.

But, he said, “bottom line, it is an amazing result.”