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We need more ways to treat diabetes. Enter Vertex
A world without insulin shots is looking like less of a fantasy.
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Insulin levels can also be influenced by things that have nothing to do with what you put in your body.
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Lisa Jarvis
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Encouraging data suggests that a new Type 1 diabetes treatment from Vertex Pharmaceuticals could allow patients to forgo insulin. While the data is early and comes with caveats, it represents a crucial step forward in a field that has long struggled to move beyond insulin delivery.
Momentum in Type 1 diabetes research is starting to hint at a day when new treatments release people from the mental load of constant, careful monitoring and worrying. It is too soon to talk about a cure for the roughly two million people in the US with the disease – but not to start to guess what a cure might look like.
