Mumbai, India, 9 May 2022: Roche Diabetes Care India (RDC India) today announced the launch of Accu-Fine, quality pen needles to make the process of insulin delivery

Roche announced the donation of medicines and diagnostics to Ukraine, including 31,000 units for diabetes management. Beyond the already communicated 150,000 packs of an antibiotic medicine the new donation includes another 4,600 packs of specialized medicines for the treatment of influenza, rheumatoid arthritis, SMA and various cancers. We are also donating reagents and consumables for automatic testing of up to 120,000 blood donations and 31,000 units for diabetes management.

Today, Roche and the Zur Rose Group announced a collaboration to empower people with diabetes and their caregivers in their daily therapy management. In Europe, there are 60 million people living with diabetes, i.e. approximately 9% of the population older than 20 years.

mySugr now allows control of the Accu-Chek Insight insulin pump directly via smartphone, starting in Austria, bringing more discretion and simplicity to the life of people with diabetes.

Roche and Lilly will integrate data from Lilly’s connected insulin pen solution into the mySugr app in several countries. Both companies are dedicated to driving new possibilities to ease the complexity of daily decision making for people with diabetes on insulin pen therapy and their healthcare professionals.