Opinion: Today’s insulin isn’t what Banting and Best developed. It’s far, far better
Headlines like "The U.S. Insulin Crisis — Rationing a Lifesaving Medication Discovered in the 1920s" imply that insulin hasn't changed much. That's wrong.
Here’s the kind of headline that has been appearing a lot recently, but it is more jarring — and worrisome — when it appears in the New England Journal of Medicine: “The U.S. Insulin Crisis — Rationing a Lifesaving Medication Discovered in the 1920s.”
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 to buy this medication.
