Experiment seeks to head off Type 1 diabetes

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Mon, 06/29/2009 - 13:13

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The doctor had barely pulled away the needle when a blister appeared on Tracey Berg-Fulton's abdomen: An experimental shot was revving up the 24-year-old's immune system - part of a bold quest to create a vaccine-like therapy for diabetes....


 

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