Doctors at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have started a pilot program and are currently enrolling participants. The pilot program involves what they are calling a Diabetic Surgery.
The diabetics that will be allowed to participant will have to meet the following requirements. Over weight or obese but not morbidly obese morbidly obese is a BMI (Body Mass Index) of over 30.) The majority of diabetics are over weight or obese and this condition alone can cause a whole host of problems for the person whether they are diabetic or not.
The surgery is called the ileal transposition with sleeve gastrectomy. The surgery will be done at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. The purpose of the surgery is to help diabetics improve a diabetics condition greatly or to reverse the diabetes. As you know there is no cure for diabetes as of yet but you have all heard the stories of people losing weight, having weight loss surgery etc… and no longer needing insulin that is what reversing diabetes means.
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/220886.php
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