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The History of Human Insulin, Problems, and the Loss of Choice, 1980 to 1993

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July 21, 1980, Monday

To Financial; Copy To Medical/Science Editor
INDIANAPOLIS, July 21

Eli Lilly and company today announced that it has begun limited testing in healthy human volunteers of biosynthetic human insulin produced by recombinant DNA technology.  The company also announced that it has started construction of the world’s first manufacturing facilities—at a cost of $40 million—to employ recombinant DNA technology to produce the biosynthetic human insulin.

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Insulin: A Voice for Choice Insulin: A Voice for Choice

In the early 1980s, human insulin produced by recombinant DNA technology came onto the market. It was the first time that this technology had been used in medicine, so hopes were high.

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Lilly draws wrath over discontinued insulin

A high school Spanish teacher in California, Linda Vernier relies on beef-pork insulin from Eli Lilly and Co. to stay healthy.

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Tips For Importing Animal Insulin

Personal Importation of Animal Insulin

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British Insulin Maker Fights To Bring Animal Insulin to the United States

Beef-pork insulin will soon disappear in the United States, leaving thousands of people with diabetes without the insulin they feel is essential to their lives. Ever since insulin manufacturers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk announced that they would no longer sell beef-pork insulin, American activists have been fighting to import it from the United Kingdom and Brazil, where it is still made and widely available. The activists work on behalf of those who say that human insulin causes side effects in them, the most frequently reported being that they no longer get any physical warning when their blood sugars drop.

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Parting Causes Great Sorrow - Beef-Pork Insulin Users Prepare to Switch

Christine Klemp of West Bend, Wisconsin, received a shock when she opened her box of insulin on August 16. A message printed in red ink said, "This insulin will be discontinued. Contact your physician to change to another insulin." Klemp was horrified, because this particular insulin (Iletin I beef-pork) is the only insulin that works well for her. "My life is about to come to an end. I just could not believe this was happening."

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Health Care Professional Calls to Save Insulin, Cheryl D. Smith, RN, MSN

Health Care Professional Calls to Save Insulin

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I Want My Iletin I!

When human insulin first appeared on the market it was thought to be a "special" insulin and the beef/pork insulin that I had taken for years was termed "standard" insulin. A lot has changed since those days. What was once thought to be the standard is now in danger of being pulled from the market.

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British Diabetes Association Statement on Human and Animal Insulins, 1997

The British Diabetic Association's (BDA's) insulin campaign is committed to securing choice for people with diabetes for the kind of insulin that they use. The BDA is therefore committed to securing long-term availability of animal and human insulins, and provision of animal insulins in pen cartridges.

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