Experimental treatment offers source of insulin, hope for diabetics.
Doctors at The Methodist Hospital are experimenting with a new treatment for the diseased or injured pancreas in which they remove the organ and implant its insulin-producing cells in the patient's arm or leg.
The research, conducted on the first patient a month ago, is part of an ongoing inquiry into how best to prevent diabetes in a person whose pancreas has been removed because of pancreatitis, trauma, or benign or early-stage malignant tumors.
Houston doctors fight diabetes with a shot of pancreas in the arm | Front page | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
