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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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Novo Nordisk follows Lilly in sharply cutting price of insulin drugs

Bio Pharma Dive

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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World Diabetes Day 2024: Advanced Care for Diabetes Management

XTalks

Cure Research: Moving Toward an Insulin-Free Future JDRF is focused on funding research that is accelerating the development of new treatments for people with T1D — for all ages and stages. “Our before people need insulin therapy), so that it’s possible to intervene with therapies that can stop clinical disease before it starts.”

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Novo Nordisk closes in on EU approval for its once-weekly insulin Awiqli

Fierce Pharma

With a positive recommendation from Europe’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), Novo has come a step closer to bringing its revolutionary Awiqli (once weekly basal insulin icodec) to the market. But that doesn’t mean the Danish company has moved on from its previous generation of blood sugar modulators.

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Novo Nordisk once-weekly insulin clears first phase 3 test

pharmaphorum

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 In absolute terms, there were 0.73 events for the once-daily drug.

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New research may lead to improved insulin-secreting cells derived from stem cells

Medical Xpress

Diabetes researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have uncovered at least one reason insulin-secreting cells made from stem cells in the lab don't work as well as natural cells.

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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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