Monday, June 07, 2004

Will Wonders Never Cease?

I don’t know about you, but I still can be amazed by medical discoveries.  Here’s one that’s pretty interesting.

"An experimental drug that suppresses the appetite and causes a reduction in high levels of sugar in the blood may be the next big thing in treatment for people with the most common form of diabetes, studies presented Sunday suggest.

The drug exenatide, a man-made version of a hormone found in the saliva of Gila monsters, reduced high blood sugar levels and led to weight loss in tests on more than 1,000 people whose type 2 diabetes was not being controlled by current drugs, researchers reported at a meeting here of the American Diabetes Association."

The headline for the article brings to mind licking frogs for their hallucinogenic benefits.

“Licking diabetes with lizard spit?"

Via Google News.

Posted by John Venlet on 06/07 at 02:50 AM
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