finally some possible great medical news

Two years ago, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham were able to show that a common drug normally used to treat high blood pressure, verapamil, could drastically change the course of diabetes in mice, even reversing the debilitating disease.

Early next year, UAB researchers will begin human clinical trials to investigate the drug's effectiveness in battling diabetes in humans, the university announced Thursday morning. The treatment is the only available treatment that focuses on keeping the pancreas's insulin-producing beta cells healthy, according to UAB.