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Toronto Star Katharine Lake Berz Toronto Star Katharine Lake Berz

The diabetes cure: A century after Banting and Best’s ‘message of hope,’ science is actually close

Lisa Hepner still remembers the shock of being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a 21-year-old student. She thought she was just tired from too much partying. But her pancreas had stopped making the insulin needed to break down sugar, doctors said. It could shorten her life and cause a raft of complications: blindness, stroke, kidney disease and even amputation.

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