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Nature Medicine 9, 1228 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm1003-1228a

Diabetes treatments get sweet help from nature

Martina Habeck1

  1. London

Mexican shamans have a wealth of experience in treating 'sweet blood', a disease that affects the indigenous population in the highlands of Mexico at record rates. Their wisdom is now helping researchers develop diabetes drugs from natural remedies.

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