Diabetes Research (No. 2)

EDM number 582 in 2010-12, proposed by Keith Vaz on 21/07/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases and Health services.

That this House welcomes recent research which has found that diabetes can be treated by rescuing insulin producing cells and transplanting them into the liver; believes that diabetes sufferers could benefit hugely from this new pioneering treatment; congratulates the work done by the University of Leicester, which is one of only 20 centres worldwide which are capable of harvesting the pancreatic islets; notes that diabetes and diabetes-related conditions cost the NHS 1 million per hour; and calls on the Government to increase research funding as this could prevent this huge expenditure in the future.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.