The first inhaled insulin will be expensive. The manufacturers are exuberant because they stand to make billions from its sales. But it might be too expensive for some people with diabetes who want to use it.
Will your health insurance company reimburse you for inhaled insulin? If they will, you might be exuberant too. But right now that’s the big unanswered question.
On January 27 the Food and Drug Administration approved the first inhaled insulin. By coincidence the European Commission...
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