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Eli Lilly Cuts Insulin Prices by 70% and Caps Patient Insulin Out-of-Pocket Costs at $35 Per Month

[Ed. note: This post has been updated with a comment from Leonard C. Glass, MD, FACE, senior vice president, Lilly Diabetes and Obesity, Global Medical Affairs, Eli Lilly and Company] Eli Lilly and Company today announced price reductions of 70% for its most commonly prescribed insulins and an expansion of its Insulin Value Program that caps...

Hammer Wins Inaugural Endocrine Images Art Competition

Gary Hammer, MD, PhD, Millie Schembechler professor of Adrenal Cancer at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., won the Endocrine Society’s Endocrine Images Art Competition, a contest celebrating the beauty of endocrine science. Entries were judged based on aesthetic value and significance to endocrine research. Hammer’s image of the adrenal gland took the top...

The Time Is Always Now: The Endocrine Society’s Call to Eliminate Racism in Endocrinology

With the publication of “Eradicating Racism in Endocrinology: An Endocrine Society Policy Perspective” in the January issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, the Endocrine Society formally calls for policies to address racial and ethnic inequities in the endocrine workforce and in access to care. James Baldwin began his 1956 essay “Faulkner and...

In Memoriam: Arnold M. Moses, 1928-2021

Arnold M. Moses, MD, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, passed away on August 4, 2021. He grew up in Newburgh, New York and after high school, at the age of 17 he enlisted in the US Army. Following World War II, he...

Never Too Late to Do Good: The Redemption of Stanley Andrisse, PhD, MBA

Stanley Andrisse, PhD, MBA, was labeled a career criminal in his early 20s before he was sent to prison for drug trafficking. Last month, his book — From Prison Cells to PhD: It’s Never Too Late to Do Good — was published by Simon & Schuster and details his remarkable transformation from troublemaking teen to...

Endocrine Society’s In-Training Exam Predicts Fellows’ Success on ABIM Board Exam

Endocrinology fellows and their program directors can use performance on the Endocrine Society’s in-training self-assessment tool to gauge how likely fellows are to pass the American Board of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Certification Examination (ABIM-ECE), according to a new study published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. The study found clinical endocrinology fellows’...

Devil in the Details: The Impact of the First Interchangeable Biosimilar Insulin

[Editor’s Note: This post has been updated to include comments from Rita Kalyani, MD.] When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first interchangeable biosimilar insulin product last month, many were hailing this as a breakthrough in treating diabetes. The impacts could be immediately felt by people rationing their insulin due to cost as...

Editor’s Page: No Place Like Work Home

Seventeen voicemails, 14 boxes of Endocrine News, and a Costa Coffee tumbler bought in London in 2019 that was in dire need of a good scrubbing. That’s what awaited me when I returned to my office at the Endocrine Society headquarters in Washington D.C. for the first since March 13, 2020. Honestly, it was good...

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