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"The mission of the Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation shall be the achievement of excellence, innovation and caring in advancing community health care issues, enhancing medical education and developing sustainable support of projects which impact the lives of many today and in the future."
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 Researchers have long hoped that transplanting insulin-producing islet cells into type one diabetics would eliminate their need for insulin injections. Only a handful of transplant patients have actually achieved insulin independence, but there may be another, more important benefit: two-thirds of those patients stopped experiencing severe drops in blood sugar levels, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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