Personalized treatment for stress-related diabetes

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 12:01 in Health & Medicine

A treatment for type 2 diabetes that targets the disease mechanism itself - and not just the symptoms -- has been developed by researchers. For the first time, knowledge about the individual patient’s genetic risk profile is being used. The treatment completely restores the capacity to secrete insulin, which is impaired by the risk gene.

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