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California’s low-cost insulin plans receive $100m manufacturing boost

Pharmaceutical Technology

Insulin prices made the headlines again as California governor Gavin Newsom announced plans on 7 July for the state to manufacture low-cost insulin. The state plans to work directly with a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) to manufacture low-cost insulin. In-house manufacturing the norm.

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Why the drug pricing debate is focused on insulin

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The treatment has been around for over a century but insulin has still become the centre of the ongoing discussion over pricing of pharmaceutical products. Ben Hargreaves looks at why insulin’s price is so controversial and whether this could be set to change. Insulin rationing. In the US, approximately 37.3

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‘Wonder capsule’ developed by scientists for insulin delivery

BioPharma Reporter

Protein drugs are notoriously difficult to deliver orally â but scientists have developed a new type of oral capsule that could deliver insulin and other similar drugs.

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T2D market growth driven by novel GLP-1RAs and once-weekly basal insulin therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a crowded and competitive landscape with multiple “me-too,” generic and biosimilar drugs entering the market, with market growth primarily driven by an increasing prevalent population across nine major markets (9MM: US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Japan, China, and India).

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California sues insulin producers and PBMs over pricing

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The ‘big three’ insulin producers Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi are being sued by the state of California for allegedly working together to set artificially inflated prices for their products. The suit follows legal action over insulin pricing taken by other states, including Arkansas , Kansas, Mississippi, and Minnesota.

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Vertex pays CRISPR to use its gene editing tech for diabetes drugs

Bio Pharma Dive

Vertex will license CRISPR technology to develop insulin-producing islet cells that are more resistant to immune rejection, adding to other efforts directed at Type 1 diabetes.

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Cell therapy enables insulin independence without immunosuppression

Drug Discovery World

Preclinical data has demonstrated insulin independence following transplantation of hypoimmune (HIP) allogeneic primary islet cells without immunosuppression in a diabetic non-human primate (NHP). Following this, blood glucose levels in the diabetic NHP began to fluctuate and increase markedly, and insulin injections needed to be resumed.

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