Eli Lilly and Co. will bypass insurance companies to offer a discount on its best-selling insulin products for patients who lack health coverage or have high deductibles that require them to pay the full cost of some medications.
In a few days, a new type of knockoff medicine will upend a $10 billion diabetes-drug market and exacerbate a brutal price war between some of its biggest players.
The FDA says the Indianapolis-based drugmaker and its partner can make an important label claim on its new diabetes drug—a move analysts say could give sales a big boost.
With drug companies under fire, the world’s largest insulin maker plans to limit price increases and introducing a model that ties the cost of medicines to the results they deliver.
Eli Lilly and Co. is pledging $90 million over five years to improve access to treatment for diabetes, cancer and tuberculosis in developing countries—the latest push in its philanthropic strategy of building health care systems around the world and increasing the market for its prescription drugs.
A hot-selling drug for diabetes sold by Eli Lilly and Co. and a co-partner just got another potential boost, as a government panel narrowly recommended that the companies should be allowed to claim that the drug cuts the risk of cardiovascular death.
The competition heated up in the $71.5 billion global diabetes market last year after Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly’s and Boehringer Ingelheim’s Jardiance unexpectedly reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths in a study.
Biochemist has founded or co-founded five startups since retiring from Eli Lilly and Co. as head of biotechnology research 13 years ago, at age 50.
The three drugmakers that dominate the world diabetes market—Eli Lilly and Co., Novo Nordisk A/S and Sanofi—are introducing improved forms of insulin, with a price tag to match.
The national not-for-profit organization, trying to fight back against high-end gyms and boutique studios, is now a national model for diabetes prevention.
Eli Lilly said Friday that it decided to stop developing the insulin peglispro after learning that it would take more time and cost more than expected to understand a significant side effect.
Before his untimely death, Amos Brown used his media pulpit to raise awareness among minority populations about their elevated risks of heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
AstraZeneca Plc didn’t receive U.S. approval for a new diabetes treatment that combines two of its existing drugs. The combination would have competed with Glyxambi from Lilly.
The settlement with France-based Sanofi SA clears up uncertainty over a drug that could rack up more than $1 billion in sales by 2020, according to Wall Street analysts.
Unprecedented results from a cardiovascular study on a diabetes medicine sold by Eli Lilly and Co. turns up the pressure on rival Novo Nordisk, which will release data from a similar study on its competing drug next year.
Eli Lilly shares soared Thursday after study results showed Jardiance sharply reduced chances of dying in diabetic patients at high risk of heart complications. The study prompted at least one analyst to predict the drug could bring in billions of dollars by the end of the decade.
A diabetes pill called Jardiance sold by Eli Lilly and Co. cut deaths from heart attacks and strokes in thousands of patients, the first drug to show promise in helping subdue two of the world’s most rampant health epidemics.
Calibrium LLC and MB2 LLC, both based in Carmel, have agreed to be sold for undisclosed amounts. They were developing diabetes drugs discovered by the research team of Richard DiMarchi, a chemistry professor at Indiana University.
Lilly’s stock had its biggest intraday gain since 2009 Thursday after it announced trial results that showed Jardiance lowered the risk of heart attacks, stroke and death in a large trial of adults with type 2 diabetes.
After years of pipeline failures, Eli Lilly and Co. is on a bit of a hot streak. This month alone, the Indianapolis-based drugmaker has reported positive results from clinical trials of four experimental drugs.
