Eleven adults with Type 1 diabetes have been able to stop using insulin after getting an experimental treatment. If they stay off insulin without major side effects, that means this could be a potential cure for a disease that affects about 2 million US adults, Mandy Ford, scientific director of Atlanta’s Emory Transplant Center, told Healthcare Brew over email. “But that is a big ‘if,’” she added. Ford and other experts told us these updated results are promising, but there are still more questions to answer, mainly whether this insulin independence could last. That will require larger and longer studies over many years, they said. Experts and advocates are optimistic, but still have questions.—CC | 
