The insulin was discovered about 100 years ago by four men, Frederick Banting, James Collip, John McCloud and Charles Best. A group of Canadians first saw the dramatic lowering of the blood sugar of a dog when they gave it an extract from pancreas that we thought was potent. This episode of Into the Mix season two is about Desmond Me who went to prison and then started advocating for voting rights in Florida.
Insulin was the poster child of overpriced life saving drugs, but a manufacturer finally capped the cost at $35. Vox’s Dylan Scott explains how pharmaceutical companies for decades managed to overprice drugs Americans desperately needed.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Matt Collette, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained
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