iPump, Inc.

Drug Helps Diabetics Heal Stubborn Wounds
Diabetes in Control
August 9, 2009

A drug used to remove iron from the body could help doctors fight one of diabetes’ cruelest complications — poor wound healing — which can lead to infection and amputation.

The drug deferoxamine helped diabetic mice heal small cuts 10 days faster than those who did not receive treatment, according to researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The team is now working to arrange human trials for deferoxamine. If the results translate, it could help doctors combat such diabetic complications as foot ulcers, an “unmet medical need of gigantic proportions,” Geoffrey Gurtner, MD, professor of surgery and senior author on the paper was quoted as saying.

Read the Article

26 Responses to “Drug May Help Diabetics Heal Stubborn Wounds”