Six centres are receiving nearly £10 million pound in government funding to offer transplants of insulin producing cells. The pioneering treatment is being rolled out around the country with experts believing it could lead to a cure.

The technique has been used on a small number of patients suffering with type 1 diabetes. The procedure involves obtaining cells from the pancreas of a dead doner and injecting them into the patients liver. The treatment is used on people at risk of hypoglycaemia and in some of the patients have freed them from needing daily insulin injections.

Diabetes UK have welcome the news and the funding with its chief executive Douglas Smallwood adding "The decision to fund this programme will be life-changing for some people".

Source : BBC News online
Date : 11/2/2008

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