Patients Tell Of Diabetes Cure

The first Australian patients to be cured from type one diabetes have spoken about their treatment. Doctors from Sydney’s Westmead Hospital transplanted cells from a donated pancreas into the patients and they are now producing their own insulin. Barbara Dunn and Julie Mudd are among the first Australian patients to undergo the ground-breaking transplant. After being diabetic for 37 years, Ms Dunne is now free of daily injections