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Novo Nordisk follows Lilly in sharply cutting price of insulin drugs

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Responding to policy changes and pressure over high drug costs, the pharma is reducing the sticker price of four branded diabetes medicines by up to 75%.

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Opinion: Even with lawsuits and copay caps, will insulin ever be affordable?

STAT News

In an attempt to tackle the root causes of inflated insulin prices, the state of California filed a lawsuit last week accusing drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers of artificially and illegally jacking up the price of insulin. The sausage-making of how insulin is priced is not for the faint of heart.

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California's insulin initiative offers path for other state drug manufacturing efforts

Medical Xpress

In a new 'Ideas and Opinions,' authors from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyze California's newly announced effort to manufacture insulin for its residents. The commentary is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

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Novo Nordisk once-weekly insulin clears first phase 3 test

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For many patients with type 2 diabetes, having to inject basal insulin every day is a burdensome fact of life, but Novo Nordisk is trying to change that. cases of hypoglycaemia per year with insulin icodec, versus 0.27 events for the once-daily drug. In absolute terms, there were 0.73

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Longer shelf life for insulin has major bearing on global health

Medical Xpress

An international study shows that it is likely that insulin can be stored at room temperature, and for considerably longer than drug companies have counted on to date. Access to this vital medicine can thereby be significantly improved for the world's poorest inhabitants.

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Eli Lilly Partners with Amazon Pharmacy for Home Delivery of Drugs

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LillyDirect Pharmacy Solutions, Eli Lilly’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) drugs website, is teaming up with Amazon Pharmacy to deliver select medications to people’s homes. The drugs include Lilly’s newly approved GLP-1 obesity drug Zepbound (tirzepatide), around a dozen of the company’s insulins and migraine drug Emgality (galcanezumab).

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Study: Metformin combined with insulin does not reduce pregnancy outcome risks compared to placebo

Medical Xpress

A recent UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine study has concluded that metformin—a drug used to control high blood sugar—along with insulin did not reduce risks for adverse neonatal outcomes compared with a placebo along with insulin in pregnancies with type 2 diabetes.

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