Monday 17 September 2012

    "Artificial" Pancreas to do Away with Diabetic Job 

When the natural insulin-producing mechanism doesn't function well, one has to take shots of insulin to keep diabetes under control.
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Doctors at Asian Institute of Gastroenterology have developed a kind of artificial pancreas that is Tucked under the skin. "It  is putting a SIM card in a phone". we can do it. by doing a one - cm Incision and giving local anesthesia," G.V. RaG, who is heading the islet research programme at AIG, Said.




source :- The Hindu 

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