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California to manufacture its own insulin, governor says

Bio Pharma Dive

Gavin Newsom announced a $100 million budget to create a production facility and to develop affordable insulin products, saying the medicines’ high cost “epitomizes market failures.”

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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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Cell culture Q&A: Solving biomanufacturing challenges with Recombinant Insulin supplementation

Pharmaceutical Technology

It is no exaggeration to say that the world changed in the early 80s when insulin was expressed synthetically in microorganisms for the first time. This breakthrough led to a recombinant (biosynthetic) and thereby safer therapy for diabetes than the animal-sourced insulin which had been used since 1922.

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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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STAT+: ‘Patchy efforts’ by major insulin makers mean access lags in many poor countries

STAT News

The three companies that dominate the global market for insulin have launched various programs to expand the reach of their medicines in dozens of low and middle-income countries — but their efforts remain patchy and equitable access consequently remains out of reach, according to a new analysis.

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Insulin producers face fresh lawsuit in US over pricing

pharmaphorum

Arkansas has become the latest US state to issue a legal challenge to the big three insulin producers – Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk – accusing them of deceptively driving up the price of the medicines. Today we begin the fight to stop this outrageous inflation of insulin pricing.”

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Civica plans shake-up of insulin sector with low-cost biosimilars

pharmaphorum

Non-profit drugmaker Civica Rx has said it will launch biosimilars of three big-selling insulin products in the US by 2024 to help diabetic patients struggling with the cost of the drugs. Cheaper options are meanwhile becoming available.

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