Op-Ed: Today’s Insulin Is Safer, More Effective Than It Once Was

PureTech Health Director John LaMattina writes in an op-ed for STAT (11/14, LaMattina) that “the sentiment that Americans are now paying dearly for the insulin pioneered nearly a century ago have helped fuel attacks against the biopharmaceutical industry, enabling politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to depict companies as being ‘very, very greedy and corrupt’ as he led people with diabetes and their family members on a high-profile bus trip to Canada to buy this medication.” LaMattina adds, “Insulin was first administered to someone with diabetes in 1922,” but has “come a long way” since then. People with diabetes “are no longer using preparations derived from animals. We have new insulins that can closely mimic natural physiological conditions, and which are safer than the older agen https://www.statnews.com/2019/11/14/insulin-safer-better-easier-to-use/