Millions of people with type 1 diabetes face challenges getting insulin. But now, scientists have a unique solution: gene-edited cows that produce human insulin in their milk. These cows, created by researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, could help. “Mother Nature designed the mammary gland as …
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Insulin Injections at Home: What to Expect
When you need insulin to manage your diabetes, that often means learning how and when to give yourself injections. The good news is that it’s easier and less painful than ever before. Kathy Bostrom, 68, has been handling injections herself for more than 15 years. She says the shot quickly becomes no big deal once …
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The Insulin Coma Therapy Mystery
A nurse checks on a psychiatric patient who lies in a state of insulin-induced coma. To break the coma, a dose of sugar is administered. In the 1950s and 1960s, a patient diagnosed with schizophrenia would often be admitted to a specialized wing of a hospital called the insulin wing. There, almost every day over the …
A TikTok User Parodied Pharma Company and Said It Was Lowering Insulin Price… and the Company Actually Did It!
Twitter’s blue check mark verification has raised a lot of eyebrows lately and some folks out there have made a hobby of trolling big corporations by impersonating them. And a journalist named Sean Morrow made a big splash when he impersonated a pharmaceutical company called Eli Lilly…and he announced that insulin would now be FREE. …
‘Insulin inside please don’t unplug’: College student says her fridge holding her 27 insulin vials was unplugged
A college student claims that a personal refrigerator in their dorm room—which held their insulin—got unplugged during a holiday break dorm check. In the short video, TikTok user @sosasammy28 (Samantha) says she left a note on the fridge reading: “Insulin inside please don’t unplug.” When she returned from Thanksgiving break, however, she found that her …
A Verified But Imposter Eli Lilly Twitter Account Caused The Real Company’s Stock To Fall Thanks To A Fake ‘Free Insulin’ Tweet
Getty Image In the last days of October, Elon Musk took control of Twitter, but he’s already accomplished so much. No, he hasn’t saved the social media service from racist and bigoted trolls. Quite the opposite. Instead, he’s implemented “bold” moves, hoping to turn the famously unprofitable joint profitable. But those plans have backfired spectacularly, …
Biosimilars May Finally Stop the Rocketing Cost of Insulin
Oct. 26, 2022 – Trapper Haskins, a 45-year-old musician with type 1 diabetes, says the price of insulin is a constant stressor in his life. The Nashville resident takes two types of insulin daily and sometimes must ration the medicine because his insurance plan caps how much of the pricey drug he can receive each …
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‘I can’t wait to sue you’: Diabetic worker says her manager almost called the cops on her after finding her insulin syringe
A diabetic woman on TikTok says her manager almost called the police on her after finding her insulin syringe. The woman, Abby Gebo (@thegebos), shared a video reenacting the conversation with her manager when he found the syringe in her personal belongings. That video went semi-viral with about 80,000 views on TikTok as of Thursday. …
A new company is going to sell $30 vials of insulin. No insurance needed.
The price of insulin has skyrocketed over the past decade. In fact, per-person spending on insulin, for those with employer-paid health insurance, doubled between 2012 and 2016. Today, the average list price for a vial of insulin for people without health insurance is $300 and some people need six per month. For those with insurance, …
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Nonprofit Plans to Make Affordable Generic Insulin
March 4, 2022 — Everyone knows that insulin prices in the United States are ridiculously high and unaffordable to many people with diabetes, but nobody has done anything about it — until now. Civica Inc., a nonprofit organization governed by health systems and philanthropies, announced Thursday that it plans to manufacture and sell generic insulin …
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Insulin Isn’t the Only Blood Sugar Regulator
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Jan. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Scientists have known for 100 years that insulin is the body’s main mechanism for controlling blood sugar levels, but researchers have now discovered a second hormone does the same job a bit differently — and they say it could be a new target …
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