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Hundreds of Minnesotans with diabetes received life-saving medication at low cost in the first six months of the state's new emergency insulin law, according to a new report from the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy. The backdrop: The Alec Smith Insulin Affordability Act, which passed with bipartisan support last year, ensures access to a 30-day supply of insulin for a $35 co-pay. The cost of the long-term program is $50 every three months.Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free.The goal of the bill, named after a 26-year-old who died after rationing his medicine, was to save people from risking their health over cost concerns. By the numbers: More than 200 residents were able to access the 30-day supply.Hundreds more enrolled in a program requiring manufacturers to provide insulin to low-income residents at reduced price for up to a year.The bill, which the pharmaceutical industry is challenging in court, cost manufacturers more than $2 million betwe ....
The Atlantic They lure their prey with the promise of sex and then kill them cold. Paulo Oliveira / Alamy The aptly named cone snail wears a house that resembles a Ben & Jerry’s receptacle, filled not with ice cream but with a squishy mollusk that sports an extendable, trunklike proboscis. The snails are superficially docile creatures, and can be painfully shy; sometimes they go weeks in a lab without taking a single bite of food, cringing at the slightest change in temperature, lighting, or human supervision. “These are not racing snails,” says Eric Schmidt, a biochemist at the University of Utah. ....
Translational research results in promising combination therapeutic candidate for type 1 diabetes Translational research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) has resulted in a promising combination therapeutic candidate for adults with recent-onset type 1 diabetes. The combination therapy was recently tested in a randomised, double-blind, placebo- controlled, phase 2 trial run and funded by pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. The results, published recently in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, point to a potential way to treat the autoimmune disease without leaving the body vulnerable to infectious disease. The therapeutic candidate combines anti-IL-21 antibody with the diabetes drug liraglutide. This two-pronged approach is based on research findings from the lab of LJI Professor Matthias von Herrath, M.D., who also serves as vice president and senior medical officer, Global Chief Medical Office, at Novo Nordisk. ....
Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Democrats are mulling including a provision to negotiate drug prices in an infrastructure bill. Savings on government spending on prescription drugs could help pay for the infrastructure projects. The government could save as much as $345 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Congressional Democrats want to crack down on drug prices to help pay for President Joe Biden s infrastructure package, according to several lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Such a provision would be included in a package that lawmakers hope to pass as early as July 4 if they can gain enough support for it. ....