Will There Be a Cure for Diabetes?

Will There Be a Cure for Diabetes? (1:00)

Will we see a vaccine to prevent diabetes or a drug to cure it in our lifetime? In this WisePatient video, endocrinologist Athena Philis-Tsimikas, MD, of Scripps Health, discusses the challenges of developing diabetes cure.

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[MUSIC] People have been promised to cure for many, many years, and although we've made huge progress and amazing amount of research has come out and what we've learnt about how the cells work. But I think we're still a long way from a true cure. That would say when we give you this or if we give you a vaccine we will prevent diabetes for ever occurring in you.

It's a very complicated mechanism. The Human body in general very complicated and to understand every aspect of the immune response and what triggers this and how do we prevent it? I think will still take a very long time.[MUSIC].