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by BurningFrog 245 days ago
There are many different kinds of insulin now, and almost nobody uses the original version, because it's tricky to get timing and dosage right.

All with their own patent situation, of course.

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Insulin is so easy to make clickbait and ragebait with due to people not knowing, or willfully ignoring, that “insulin” is not one specific medicine.

Kind of crazy considering how many people have diabetes.

I should how so, considering the discovery I'm talking about happened in 1921.