Faustman released Phase I results...
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Posted by Jay on 19:36:30 2010/06/28
Here's the link. There's no mention of whether BCG actually did anything, other than not cause problems, during the study. That's a little disappointing, given the statements being made when the study was launched, like the following:
"The first step in the human study, which is currently enrolling volunteers, is to determine whether the same strategy using BCG vaccination can be used to modify the abnormal autoimmune cells that are present in type 1 diabetes, sometimes called "juvenile-onset" diabetes."
or this one:
David M. Nathan, MD, director of the MGH Diabetes Center, who is leading the human study at MGH, provides context, "This is the very first step in what is likely to be a long process in achieving a cure. We first need to determine whether the abnormal autoimmune cells that underlie type 1 diabetes can be knocked out with BCG vaccination, as occurred in the mouse studies."
There's no mention in the results that we know anything more than we knew 2 years ago, except that BCG is pretty safe. Something that I thought we already knew.
Am I being too harsh here?
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