• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Interesting, but that headline is misleading.

    A single patient was weaned off blood sugar medication over a year and hasn’t redeveloped diabetes in almost three years.

    There’s obviously a lot more research into the cell therapy process and many more patients are going to have to undergo this therapy in controlled conditions before we can call it a new cure.

    Right now, this is an interesting medical anomaly that occurred over more than a year of treatment in which someone’s pancreatic process was restored in correlation with a new cell therapy.

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      5 months ago

      First human trial for a treatment strategy passed (notably, we know that placebo treatments for diabetes fail). This more than passes the bar to justify further large-scale human trials and, clinically, is a very strong indicator of success.

      What, is it not a cure until it’s available to the public?

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        5 months ago

        I mean, the guy is correct… there are plenty of cases where someone has recovered from something that doesn’t have widespread impact.

        That doesn’t make this any less, but a good dose of scepticism is pretty healthy when it comes to broad statements like ‘cures diabetes’

        Edit: too many versions of ‘healthy’ haha

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        It justifies, in fact begs for human trials, but a single unregulated data point from a single moment is hardly a cure.

        It becomes a cure after the treatment is isolated from mitigating factors and acutely applied to the same disorder in many patients in controlled conditions with peer-reviewed and independently confirmed repeatable results over time.

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        5 months ago

        Well, the phrase is, “the plural of anecdote is not statistic.” In this case, we only have a single case, so it doesn’t even escape “anecdote.” I think at that point, there isn’t yet a scientific basis to call it a “cure.”