Drugs have two names. The brand name is the one that’s chosen by the company making it and that company is the only one allowed to use the name. (The name that the company proposes is reviewed by ...

Nearly 20 years ago, Canadian researchers developed the Edmonton Protocol, a revolutionary treatment for type 1 diabetes in which insulin-producing islet tissue from a donor pancreas is transplanted ...

Previously known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, Type 1 diabetes results when the pancreatic beta cells are destroyed by the immune system. Beta cells are the only cell type in the ...