On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:41:43 GMT, Jennifer Thompson
dijo:

Does anybody here know of an on-line pharmacy or somewhere else I can
get this type of insulin less expensively?

Yikes!

In the U.S. human insulin costs about $25-30 per 1000 unit vial (10
ml, U-100). I don't know anything about PZI insulin, but my initial
reaction is that it shouldn't cost anywhere near that amount.

Having said that, almost all human insulin is made from e. coli
bacteria which have been genetically reengineered to produce human
insulin. In the olden days it was made by processing the pancreases
from pigs and cows, and it was more expensive back then. I'm wondering
if the demand for PZI insulin is so low that they have to use older,
more expensive methods to make it.

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