Philip--

It will be interesting to hear how Lilly's spokesperson replies. When diabetics needing animal insulins found an advocate at a Florida television station to do an in-depth piece, the corporate response was both predictable and insulting.

In essense, the Lilly spokesperson said ALL diabetics could use genetically-engineered insulin, and the ANECDOTAL reports (of hypoglycemia unawareness, dead-in-bed syndrome) covered by the investigator could be easily answered: Diabetics--when they get a cold, they blame the insulin, when they get an infection they blame the insulin, and hypoglycemia? . . . these anecdotal reports were probably by diabetics who forgot that they forgot to eat!

You can watch the video featuring Lilly's spokesperson (John Holcombe, MD) here:
http://members.tripod.com/diabetics_world/videos7_12.htm

Congrats Philip, I can't wait to download it. For those reading at home, this is not Philip's first radio broadcast and he is a great speaker. I would recommend downloading ITunes and listening to the commentary. I am sure it will be well worth it.

That's great to hear Philip--great job!

As far as the Lilly rep; I'm expecting a canned answer, that won't address any real issues; as in politics; or a person not wanting to get fired from their job for speaking out against Lilly.

Cool. When you're on the radio, you know you've "made it."

Your blog makes me lazy. Why dig up on pharma info when I've got you to do it for me? ;)

Looking forward to it. There's very little debate about the actual content of psychiatric treatments in Australia, only much lamenting of the general lack of funding of the mental health system.