[by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]¸ü¶àÌýÁ¦Çë·ÃÎÊ51VOA.COM [00:00.04]A diabetic woman no longer needs [00:02.51]to take daily medicine after she received a stem cell transplant. [00:09.08]The daily insulin injection had helped control the amount of sugar -- [00:14.20]or glucose -- in her blood. [00:16.74]Wendy Peacock was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 17, [00:24.08]according to the Miami Herald newpaper. [00:27.68] Ms. Peacock, who is now 43, [00:30.71]received the stem cells in mid-August [00:34.00]at the University of Miami-Miller School of Medicine in Florida. [00:39.47]Doctors called the operation simple and said [00:44.28]Ms. Peacock recovered quickly. [00:48.04]After the operation, her body started producing insulin naturally. [00:54.64] Ms. Peacock "is now completely off insulin," one of her doctors said. [01:00.64]"These are the best ... results we've seen," [01:03.76]said Dr. Camillo Ricordi, director of the Cell Transplant Center [01:08.88]at the Diabetes Research Center in Florida. [01:12.68] "If these results can be confirmed, [01:15.28]this can be the beginning of a new era in ... transplantation," said Dr. Ricordi. [01:22.28]If other doctors study the results and confirm the outcome, [01:26.76]the procedure could become available to other diabetics. [01:32.04]Ms. Peacock says her life has changed dramatically as a result of the operation. [01:39.80]Before the operation, Ms. Peacock was unable to sense [01:44.40]when her blood glucose dropped dangerously. [01:48.92]Low glucose can make a person confused or unconscious. [01:54.36]It may even lead to death. [01:56.88]Now she does not need to monitor her blood glucose. [02:01.29]"As any type 1 knows, you live on a very structured schedule," Ms. Peacock explained. [02:08.36]"I do a mental checklist every day in my head ... [02:11.60]glucose tabs, food, glucometer, etc., [02:15.44]and then I stop and say, 'WOW! I don't have to plan that anymore.' " [02:21.00]Asians will find the medical news encouraging. [02:24.84]Studies have shown that Asians are at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, [02:30.88]when compared with people of European ancestry. [02:34.12]That's according to the Asian Diabetes Prevention Initiative [02:39.08]at Harvard University in Massachusetts. [02:42.27]Asian populations have fewer overweight and obese people [02:47.40]than people in the West. [02:49.88]But they have a higher percentage of people with diabetes. [02:55.56]Currently, 60 percent of the world's diabetic population is Asian, [03:01.77]according to the Initiative's website. [03:04.09]I'm Kelly Jean Kelly.