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...past. The good news is that there are now better treatments, including more effective preparations of insulin, closer monitoring of blood sugar and earlier intervention for complications. Even more promising are current attempts to make an end run around the disease. A case in point is Gary Kleiman, 50, who has had two kidney transplants and lost most of his eyesight since being diagnosed at age 6. Today Kleiman is one of 300 patients worldwide who have received a transplant of pancreatic islet cells. For the first time since age 6, Kleiman does not need insulin injections. "It's been...
...Kleiman's physician, Dr. Camillo Ricordi of the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami, is one of the pioneers who have refined islet-cell transplants. And while a pancreatic-cell transplant may sound like a cure, Ricordi is quick to point out that it is not. First, there is the challenge of preventing a patient's body from rejecting the transplanted cells, and second, there is the challenge of shutting off the immune response that still wants to kill off islet cells...
...time, and then decline when the consequences became more luridly obvious--only to rise again when a generational forgetfulness sets in and a drug's glamour could assert itself afresh. Indeed, today some experts are worried that an obsessive concern about marijuana may confuse overall perspectives. Says Mark Kleiman, a UCLA professor who specializes in national drug policy: "It's destructive to focus the country on one small part of drug use. Focusing on marijuana ignores the rising use of methamphetamine and the fact that heroin appears to be coming back, and ignores the No. 1 drug of abuse among...
...Kleiman said he would probably testify again onJurado's behalf if asked to do so by the defense...
...guilty, I'm extremely sorry to hearthat my friend Franklin Jurado took the wrongroad," Kleiman said. "If he's not guilty, I'm evenmore distressed...