In what’s been hailed as a world first, a group of scientists have reportedly cured a patient’s diabetes using stem cell therapy. The patient, age 59, had been living with type 2 diabetes for 25 years. The therapy restored his pancreatic function and freed him from needing external insulin. But Dr Eric Westman, who posts reaction videos to medical news stories on his YouTube channel, argues that novel therapies such as this miss the point, which is that he sees patients’ diabetes go into remission all the time. And it doesn’t take advanced stem cell therapy to “cure” the condition. 59-year-old…