Insulin belongs to the world
Until chronic problems in the insulin market are addressed, many vulnerable patients will continue to suffer unnecessarily
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Until chronic problems in the insulin market are addressed, many vulnerable patients will continue to suffer unnecessarily
Of the roughly 420 million humans who live with diabetes, some 150 million rely on insulin "to live a full and healthy life," per Diabetes Canada. Few if any know...
AMSTERDAM — After insulin was discovered in 1921, the Canadian scientists behind the breakthrough sold the patent for their formula for just Can$1. As medical researcher Frederick Banting said at the time, they wanted to make it as widely available as possible because “it belongs to the world”. In the century since then, a host of improved forms of insulin have been developed,
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