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2010 BIO Conference – Wednesday
This is the third day of our coverage of the 2010 BIO International Convention, a massive biotechnology conference being held this week at McCormick Place in Chicago. Come back all day for reports from...
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Pushing Forward With Islet Transplants
Pancreatic islets can be transplanted into a diabetic patient’s liver and help them begin producing their own insulin. Like every person with type 1 diabetes, Joey Knoop’s life was a balancing act. She...
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Simple Tests to Make a Scary-sounding Pancreas Surgery Go Smoothly
A pancreaticoduodenectomy is as scary as it sounds (break it into parts to pronounce it: pancreatico-duo-denectomy). It’s a surgical procedure to remove the pancreas and parts of the stomach and small...
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Combination of surgery and islet transplant offers new option for patients...
Tammy Cox, of Springfield, Ill., with her husband Greg. Cox had her pancreas removed completely to cure her chronic pancreatitis, and received an auto islet transplant at the same time to prevent the...
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UChicago Medicine earns prestigious pancreas center designation
Andres Gelrud, MD, MMSc, associate professor of medicine and director of the University of Chicago Medicine’s Center for Pancreatic Disorders, in endoscopy suites on the 5th floor of the Center for...
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