Risky Brazil experiment enables Type I diabetics to live without insulin CHICAGO (AP) This photo released by Julio Voltarelli, MD., left, shows Voltarelli, and Dr. Richard Burt, right, from Northwestern University School of Medicine, outside Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a patient who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus in Feb. 2004. Thirteen young diabetics in Brazil have ditched their insulin shots and need no other medication thanks to a risky, but promising treatment with their own stem cells - apparently the first time such a feat has been accomplished. Click HERE for full story.