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Nonprofit drugmaker Civica Rx is taking aim at the high insulin prices harming people with diabetes

  • Written by Jing Luo, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences
Nonprofit drugmaker Civica Rx is taking aim at the high insulin prices harming people with diabetesHigh insulin prices are leaving some people who need the drug without access.Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

Doctors have been treating diabetes with insulin since 1922. A century later, about 1 in 5 of the 37 million Americans living with diabetes take this medication – a hormone that helps cells absorb sugar from the blood.

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