Stop making Iletin I (beef/pork) insulin this year
January 1998
Lilly will stop making Iletin I (beef/pork) insulin this year...supplies will run out sometime in 1999.
Fewer than 6% of diabetics still use animal insulin...but many of these patients are reluctant to change.
They fear that switching to human insulin will lead to more frequent hypoglycemia and poor control.
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