India Developing Oral Treatment for Diabetes

[ender0316]

Hello, I've been hanging around on this forum for awhile now (since I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes this past July) but never posted. I came across this today and wondered if anyone else had heard of it, and what you all think about it?

India Developing Oral Vaccine to Fight Diabetes (http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=18111)

[BriOnH]

I think they need better translators. Also it sounds like a diabeti c i..ne product.

[jen_slc]

So is it a vaccine or oral insulin or another BG-reducing agent (for T2s presumably)? It is not clear and they refuse to explain the mechanism. Can't be a vaccine, it sounds like it's taken every 24 hours, so are they working on a method to get insulin inside our bodies through the digestive pathway. hmmm.... really not much info out there on them.

There are true vaccines out there that are being studied right now, that halt the progression of T1, but this is not one of them.

[BriOnH]

I think they think a vaccince means something else, that's part of the reason I think they need better translation. Or it's a web spider ploy. Either way it sounds homeopathatic and a crock imo.

[ender0316]

Well I found some more info on a few other websites, including a recent one from diabetes.co.uk. Not sure but it seems legit enough? :)

Oral diabetes medication under development (http://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2007/Feb/oral-diabetes-medication-under-development.html)

Yeah I thought the word "vaccine" was probably mis-translated because it sounds more like a daily med.

[Harold]

My advice, don't hold your breath for this one. It's not even in phase one yet.

[HelenM]

Welcome ender,
India certainly has a growing problem with type 2 diabetes and I am not surprised to see Indian research in this field. I wouldn't have thought that the word vaccine was used erroneously by researchers (I've never met an educated Indian whose English wasn't better than mine!) perhaps the reporter garbled the information.
On Transgene Bioteks own website I found this

Dr. Rao initiated and sponsored this research on an oral delivery platform for proteins and peptides that has since shown tremendous promise. In Nov 2002, Dr. Rao obtained the US Patent rights (patent no. 6482413) for this breakthrough nanoparticulate technology platform, on which animal trials have been successfully conducted for oral delivery of Insulin and Hepatitis B vaccine.


Well I found some more info on a few other websites, including a recent one from diabetes.co.uk. Not sure but it seems legit enough?
That site is not Diabetes UK, the charity (which is diabetes.org.uk) but a commercial site although that doesn't stop it being a genuine news report.