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Employee benefit plans	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2013
Employee benefit plans	14. Employee benefit plans The Company administers a 401(k) Savings Retirement Plan (the “MannKind Retirement Plan”) for its employees. For the years ended December 31, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the Company contributed $777,000, $571,000 and $533,000 respectively, to the MannKind Retirement Plan.

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The entire disclosure for pension and other postretirement benefits.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 715

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2235017

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