Newsom committed California to making its own insulin. It’s at least a year behind his schedule
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plan to produce a cheap, generic insulin for the 3.2 million Californians with diabetes is ...
Insulin Prices Dropped. But Some Poor Patients Are Paying More.
A law that coaxed companies to lower the price of drugs came with a little-known consequence: smaller discounts for ...
pharmaphorum2d
Novo Nordisk: survival of the fittest applies in diabetes and obesity market
It became the first drug approved to ... on further innovation in insulin – but it knows it has to up its game, especially as biosimilar versions of Sanofi’s Lantus are now gaining ground ...
The Baltimore Sun2d
Baltimore City school system sues drug companies over allegedly inflated price of insulin
The Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners is suing Eli Lilly and Co., UnitedHealth Group, CVS and several other drug manufacturers for allegedly colluding to inflate the cost of insulin.
pharmaphorum5d
Civica plans shake-up of insulin sector with low-cost biosimilars
The biosimilars – which will be interchangeable with Sanofi's Lantus (insulin glargine), Novo ... They will use drug substance made by GeneSys Biologics but will be made at Civica's ...
Fox News4d
Weiss Report: Hunter’s drug use can’t explain away not paying taxes on money earned by 'last name'
Special Counsel David Weiss' final report on his years-long investigation into Hunter Biden determined the first son's drug abuse could ... earned off of his "last name and connections." ...
BioPharma Dive8h
Medicare will negotiate Novo’s GLP-1 drug price. Here’s what that means for Ozempic, Wegovy.
Novo sells semaglutide as Ozempic and Rybelsus for diabetes and as Wegovy for obesity. In price talks, CMS will treat the different forms as a single product.
Fierce Healthcare3d
FTC: Big 3 PBMs generated $7.3B from specialty generic drug markups
The FTC’s findings—which analyzed 51 specialty generic drugs from 2017 to 2022—showed these pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs') affiliated pharmacies spun up $7.3 billion in excess revenue ...
Healthline5d
Making Sense of Medicare Prescription Drug Lists: What’s Covered?
Medicare plans have a list of medications, both brand-name and generic ... All Medicare drug plans now offer $35-per-month copays for most insulin brands. Medicare Part D is a Medicare plan ...
Healthline5d
Understanding Your Daily Insulin Needs
Injecting insulin is not a safe approach to weight training. However, some bodybuilders will inject it as a performance-enhancing drug. They believe injecting insulin will allow energy in the form ...
Medscape2d
Room-temperature Storage of Medications Labeled for Refrigeration
28 days Prescribing information Insulin glargine (rDNA origin) vial or cartridge Lantus vial or cartridge (Sanofi-Aventis) 28 days Prescribing information 70% insulin aspart protamine suspension ...