Researchers in Boston are working to determine if an old tuberculosis vaccine could be the key to treating type 1 diabetes.

At just 14-years-old, Cam Power has not known a life without diabetes. "I always have to be careful," he said. He was diagnosed at just 16-months-old.

"[We] went into his room, and he was limp," said Bill Power, Cam's father. "We went into the hospital, and they told us that one of the tests was a little off - the blood glucose. We immediately looked at each other and we said, 'he's got diabetes.'"

Dropped into a world of insulin shots and blood sugar monitoring, Cam has lived with the disease for more than a decade. However, hope may lie in a drug that has been around for more than a century.

Dr. Denise Faustman at Massachusetts General Hospital is leading the c

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