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A procedure that involves inflating a hot balloon inside the gut could reverse type 2 diabetes and free thousands of patients from daily insulin injections, say doctors.
The pioneering operation is set to be offered to a handful of British patients as part of an international trial, after promising early results which saw three-quarters of those who underwent it ditch the drug.
The technique, known as duodenal mucosal resurfacing, involves the balloon being threaded on a long, thin tube down the throat, into the stomach, and then the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine.
The pioneering operation is set to be offered to a handful of British patients as part of an international trial, after promising early results which saw three-quarters of those who underwent it ditch the drug
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Sabaa Akintola, a student of Dentistry and Dental Surgery at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, who lost a limb at five, speaks to ALEXANDER OKERE about the experience
You said in a post on Twitter that you lost your left limb as a little girl. Can you tell us how it happened?
In 2002, I was hit by a drunk driver in front of my mother’s shop in Ikirun, Osun State. My mother had a small shop, a little distance away from the roadside where my elder siblings and I go to join her after school. On that particular day, the driver swerved from the main road and crushed me to a pole within seconds – just like that. My left leg was mangled and my right leg escaped with a little scratch at the ankle.
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Police warned Geri Halliwell that the London nail bomb maniac wanted to shoot her dead while she made her debut solo performance at the Brit awards.
Homophobe David Copeland wanted to kill the Spice Girl during her 2000 performance because she was friends with gay artists - including the late George Michael.
Scotland Yard officers went to Halliwell s house to make their warning clear - but she performed solo single Bag It Up at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre stage in London regardless.
Copeland caused three nail bomb explosions in the space of 13 days in April 1999 - the final of which went off gay pub the Admiral Duncan.