Dr. Sheikh: Good news for diabetics in the “artificial pancreas” Madinah - Jeddah Wednesday 19/01/2011 Dr. Sheikh: Good news for diabetics with “artificial pancreas” Professor Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Sheikh, professor and consultant of internal medicine, endocrinology and diabetes at King Abdulaziz University confirmed And Dr. Soliman Fakih Hospital, in a special statement to “Al-Madina”, said that he can deliver positive good tidings to diabetics, with the approach of a curative treatment that relieves suffering from a lot, which is the artificial pancreas, which resembles an insulin pump, and measures the level of diabetes in the blood with adjusting the amount of insulin automatically without the patient’s intervention. Regarding what was raised about stem cells, Professor Abdul Rahman Al-Sheikh said that there have been many inquiries about stem cells in the treatment of diabetes, and that stem cells began to be used in research as a treatment for many diseases for more than ten years, and the research did not complete that and proved the benefit in some diseases such as Nerve damage ..
As for diabetes, so far the picture has not been clear and no evidence has been issued from any of the research centers, and that the isolation of stem cells is not a problem, but these centers must emphasize their usefulness in treating diabetes and also it is necessary to know if there is Complications like any new treatment, pointing out that there is a report indicating an increase in leukemia among those who were given stem cells. Unfortunately, recently we hear about centers that treat diabetes stem cells from the third world, although the centers that I started researching so far have not circulated them as a treatment and also an organization Global health and medical societies have not recommended treating diabetes with stem cells, and that it is necessary to wait until the reports are issued using them without complications, but there is exploitation by some people with weak hearts, including what was raised in recent years via the Internet that there is a center in Germany that conducts these operations and went to this The center is more than thirty patients who follow me in the clinic, and no one has benefited from them, as they still take the same amount of insulin, and they only benefited from the tourist trip. This confirms the article of the British scientist who spoke about such centers and described going to them with stem cell tourism, so I advise all patients to be patient and wait until the picture becomes clear.
