Drug companies urged to ‘release stranglehold’ on medicines such as Ozempic and Trulicity, as millions are priced out of treatment
Drug companies are pricing diabetes medicines at almost 400 times the level necessary to make a profit, according to a new study.
The study is published by Médecins Sans Frontières in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open. The study also found large markups on pens ready-filled with insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps to control blood sugar and a vital treatment globally for people with diabetes, whose bodies do not make or use it correctly.
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