How a pancreas transplant can cure diabetes

November is National Diabetes Month, a time to assess your risk for diabetes and your options if you're diagnosed with the illness. A diabetes diagnosis means the body cannot regulate blood sugar due to inadequate insulin production from the pancreas — a long, flat gland that sits behind the stomach in the upper abdomen. The results for a patient with diabetes can be vision loss, and nerve and damage to other organs, unless blood sugar…
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