The U.S. Insulin Crisis - Rationing a Lifesaving Medication Discovered in the 1920s

N Engl J Med. 2019 Nov 7;381(19):1793-1795. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1909402.

Authors

Michael Fralick¹, Aaron S Kesselheim¹

Affiliation

¹ From Mount Sinai Hospital and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto - both in Toronto (M.F.); and the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (A.K.).

PMID: 31693804
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1909402

No abstract available

Publication types

Historical Article

MeSH terms

Canada
Drug Costs / legislation & jurisprudence
Drug Costs / statistics & numerical data*
Drug Costs / trends
Drugs, Generic
History, 20th Century
Insulin / economics
Insulin / history
Insulin / supply & distribution*
Legislation, Drug*
Patents as Topic*
United States

Substances

Drugs, Generic
Insulin