Are the researchers telling you that $12,000 must be provided by you in order for them to even review your child's condition? Or is this the cost of the...
Sue, thanks for the information. I think what's mostly frustrating is that despite all the work that was done there is still no indication if it actually works...
Hi Karin, Actually, there were some experiments using over 1,000 of human blood samples that served as a proof of concept for this research. The protocol...
Karin, There are several reasons that I have a lot of hope about Dr. Faustman's work. The first is the logical progression she's followed from the very ...
Hi Karin, I think you may be missing some points about this research. First, we would probably have results from phase 2 by now if Dr. Faustman got the needed...
"She could've taken the easy way out like most diabetes researchers and taken the money from big pharma to run clinical trials for drugs that will never cure...
And that-the fact that the drug used is already available and safe-is the heart of the funding problem. Type I maintenance is a huge business. and is...
"She could've taken the easy way out like most diabetes researchers and taken the money from big pharma to run clinical trials for drugs that will never cure...
Sue or anyone else who might know, You recently said the phase I trial would end this month. When can we expect the lab to publish the data from the trial?...
... I thought the end-of-study date had been pushed out to mid-2010. Didn't the TV news story that was linked here months ago contain that information? So...
I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of 2 and 1/2 years old, I am now 22, so have had the condition for approximately 20 years and still waiting...
The clinical part of the trial should be ending about now. The analysis and report should be out about the beginning of the year. That's what I heard last. I...
Hi Becky, Here's the latest information I have: It will take a least 3 months for the results from all the blood assays to come in after all the patients have...
... I'm with you on this one, it's all about companies making money, but do they have to live with the condition day in and day out, I dont think so! It's all...
Hi Becky, This is the latest information I heard: It will take a least 3 months for the results from all the blood assays to come in after all the patients...
September 14th, Drive for a Cure - MarylandGolf Tournament for Brave Dave/Stop Autoimmunity Forever (SAF) Â Come support the first human trials to try to stop...
I'm surprised no one reported it here, but on 10-February 2009, the Nathan group officially reported that they had enrolled the last patient into their Phase-I...
Hi all - Just wanted to share with the group that our team in Maryland just launched our new website for Stop Autoimmunity Forever (SAF). Our charter remains...
Hi Joshua, Thanks for posting this. I hadn't seen the report from 10 February 2009, so this is good information. Do you happen to have a link to the report?...
According to the clinicaltrials.gov website, the last changes reported (aside from the fact that the trial was no longer recruiting participants) was the...
Updates on the trial are available at the clinicaltrials.gov website, and they now also have an RSS feed which you may enter into your blog reader for this (or...
It's the FDA's Clinical Trials site, here: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00607230 If you check the history option, you can see that on 10-Feb-2009,...
Does anyone else remember reading an article where Dr. Faustman said something about the NOD mice in her studies appearing to be deaf? I have a vague memory...
The first time I went to see Dr. Faustman, she indicated to me that my deafness and type 1 were probably caused by the same T-cell defect. I still have the...