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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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Lilly to lower insulin prices by 70%

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The pharma company, along with its diabetes drug rivals Novo Nordisk and Sanofi, has long been under pressure over the high cost of insulin — scrutiny that has recently ramped up in the U.S.

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Insulin prices demonstrate pharma’s greed

World of DTC Marketing

WHAT’S HAPPENING: In the Build Back Better bill , Democrats are actually proposing limiting insulin prices to $35 a month but Republicans can’t have any of that. PhRMA spent pharma’s money well and bought some politicians while people who need insulin are suffering.

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Twin Health raises $140m for “digital twin” diabetes reversal app

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by the end of follow-up, and 92% of them eliminated all diabetes medications including oral antidiabetic drugs (OADs) and insulin. The company is planning to go public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Mountain Crest due to close this month. There was no improvement in a control group of patients.

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How the patient voice is becoming vital for drug approval

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Rebecca Sanders from Lipodystrophy UK tells us how the patient voice helped convince NICE to approve a much-needed drug for this rare disease, and explores how regulators and pharma companies can help make patient involvement in HTA more impactful. The earlier HTAs, researchers and pharma companies can start that engagement the better.

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Arecor heads for London Stock Exchange with drug reformulation strategy

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Based in Cambridge, Arecor has proprietary formulation technology and plans to enter development partnerships and licence out drugs to big pharma companies, looking for milestone payments and royalties as they progress through the development process and on commercialisation.

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Novo Nordisk: Prevention, digital tools and collaboration to define the future of diabetes

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In our latest UK Leaders article Pinder Sahota, UK general manager at Novo Nordisk, tells us how he hopes to bring the NHS and pharma together to improve outcomes in diabetes and other long-term conditions. This will also mean the industry needs to think about how HCPs will want to interact with pharma companies. “If