> There have been few efforts to create a cheaper insulin. Walmart, for instance, sells Novo Nordisk's human insulin under the name ReliOn for $25 a vial. Eli Lilly is expected to release the first copycat insulin analog, a chemically altered form of insulin, at the end of this year.
As the husband of a type-1 wife, I just wanted to add that there is a difference in insulin that isn't just long-acting or short-acting. Different people can react differently to different insulins. My wife used the ReliOn brand for both for a while, and even though the short-acting was fine, the long-acting was way too inconsistent (some very non-deterministic lows and highs). Switching to Levemir long-acting smoothed those out.
That said, nothing inherently wrong with the ReliOn brand if that's all one can afford. My wife forgot her short-acting insulin for a long weekend trip one time and it was nice to know what we could simply buy some insulin out of pocket and not get gouged to death.
> am amazed by how many diabetics and GPs don't know this exists.
I've noticed that GPs don't know enough about diabetes, one needs a specialist to really get control of it.
I've been testing mine with a red laser pointer (NOT into my eye!). The glasses reflect a lot, even at a high angle. What does get through does not project beyond the filter itself, and is very dim, even in a darkened room (yes, I'm being careful, I know a reflection can cause damage). When I look at a 100W equiv CFL bulb, it resembles what you photographed. I've also looked briefly at my smartphone flash when in flashlight mode, it is quite dim and 'shifted' toward yellow. Just wondering if I can extrapolate these into a transmission spectrum.
I'm leaning toward throwing on an ordinary UV blocking pair of sunglasses on top and then limiting my time anyway, you can basically see the same thing with the pinhole technique. This is a risk I would take for myself, if my children were still young I would not risk their eyes, nor do it in front of them and tell them they couldn't.
Also, I can distinctly remember staring directly at the sun as a (dumbass) kid on multiple occasions for as long as I could stand it.
"Also, I can distinctly remember staring directly at the sun as a (dumbass) kid on multiple occasions for as long as I could stand it."
Yes, nature has made it so that we can't do that and harm ourselves, since the sun has been there for a long time. The problem is precisely that during the eclipse you'll be able to "stand it" for much, much longer. Eclipses don't happen often enough for us to be protected against them, and I also have to imagine most animals aren't as fascinated with them as we are...
> There have been few efforts to create a cheaper insulin. Walmart, for instance, sells Novo Nordisk's human insulin under the name ReliOn for $25 a vial. Eli Lilly is expected to release the first copycat insulin analog, a chemically altered form of insulin, at the end of this year.
You can buy this product right now, it is the same formulation you would have taken if you were diabetic in the 1990s. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pharmacy-Relion-Humulin-Insulin/1...
I am amazed by how many diabetics and GPs don't know this exists.