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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is the term for medical products and practices that are not part of standard care. Standard care is what medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy and allied health professionals, such as registered nurses and physical therapists, practice. Alternative medicine means treatments that you use instead of standard ones. Complementary medicine means nonstandard treatments that you use along with standard ones.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Leukemia Drug Holds Promise as Type 1 Diabetes Treatment

By Sean Kelley

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Scientists have successfully used a leukemia drug to reverse type 1 diabetes—at least in mice. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and Plexxikon, a pharmaceutical research firm, studied two cancer drugs—Gleevec (imatinib) and Sutent (sunitinib)—in non-obese diabetic mice, which were prone to developing diabetes.
Both drugs are tyrosine kinase inhibitors, which interfere with cell communication and growth and are used to fight tumors. Gleevec is prescribed for chronic myelogenous leukemia and Sutent is used to treat advanced kidney cancer and a type of stomach cancer. Read More