As soon as this summer, Norton Healthcare may become one of 11 sites that offers a life-changing treatment for chronic pancreatitis patients.
That alone is exciting, but this new islet cell lab holds so much more hope. The new lab could be a dynamic step toward finding a biological cure for Type 1 diabetes.
“A biological cure means everything to patients living with Type 1 diabetes because they can then look toward the rest of their life with greater hope that they will be able to live and be as healthy as anyone else without diabetes,” said Dr. Kupper Wintergerst, a pediatric endocrinologist with Norton Children’s and the executive director of the Wendy Novak Diabetes Institute…