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Re: Re: Re: The Many Faces Of Eli Lilly And Company |
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Sep 20, 05 - 9:50 PM |
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From the Indianapolis Star, December 1999
"Animal insulin is the Lindbergh of the space shuttle age," said Dr. John H. Holcombe, senior clinical research physician for diabetes care at Lilly. "It's antiquated."
Holcombe, the Lilly physician, said analysis of those calls convinces him that most people who have problems switching from animal to human insulin haven't tried hard enough to get used to it, or lack guidance on tailoring doses to their bodies and lifestyles.
"We don't know of a single case where a patient has not been successfully transferred working with a doctor," he said.
Meanwhile, Iletin 1 users who call Lilly to ask about finding a replacement beef insulin won't get much help.
Lilly's call center specialists are under orders not to refer customers to CP, or even to tell them that importing beef insulin is an option.
"We cannot," said Lilly products spokesman Jeffrey G. Newton. "It gets us into the realm of violating the spirit, if not the law, of the FDA by promoting unapproved products."
And you can bet that callers to the Lilly toll-free phone number in the US never hear of CP Pharma for pork insulin either.
OK now--let's see. One keeps saying no one has a problem transferring from animal insulin to human insulin, the other makes admissions before Canada's Parliament and gets promoted along the way. He makes a company committment to pork insulin, but to Canadian residents only. If you live south of the border, apparently only the statements of the OFFW apply to you. When the official announcement regarding discontinuing the remaining Iletins was made, the official company statement went something along the lines of them being committed to seeing that each patient who was using one of the 4 discontinued insulins find a suitable replacement--whether it was a Lilly insulin or not.
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