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Dave Reed is president of the Healthcare Business Solutions group inside Bloomington-based Cook Medical Inc. Since 2007, his team of 18 full-time people—aided by about 60 others throughout Cook’s organization—has worked with hospital systems, distributors of medical products and group purchasing organizations to improve the efficiency of the business side of health care and to make sure new products contribute to that efficiency, as well as solving unmet medical needs.

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Cook wins approval for new stent

Bloomington-based Cook Medical won approval for the first drug-coated stent for clogged leg arteries in the United States, which accounts for 40 percent of the soon-to-be $3 billion market.

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Cook again tops list of richest Hoosiers

The widow of medical device pioneer Bill Cook ranks 104th with a net worth of $3.7 billion. Other Hoosiers to make the Forbes 400 list were shopping mall magnate and Indiana Pacers owner Herb Simon, hotel developer Dean White and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay.

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Growing ENT market attracts Cook

Bloomington-based Cook Medical announced a new division to capitalize on the growing market for minimally invasive procedures to fix problems in ears, noses and throats, as well as other maladies of the head and neck.

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Cook Medical shelves Midwest expansion plans

Life Sciences Cook Yonkman watch videoCook Medical Inc. had been planning to open five new manufacturing plants over the next five years in small communities around the Midwest, including Indiana, but has shelved those plans because of the hit it will take from a new U.S. tax on medical devices.

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French breast-implant recall could sway U.S. device debate

U.S. medical device makers have spent the last year urging government officials to approve high-risk products faster, like their European counterparts. A scandal over leaking breast implants made in France, however, may make the argument more difficult.

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Gloomy outlook for medical device makers

The next four years could be rough for makers of medical devices and orthopedic implants, including Bloomington-based Cook Medical Inc. and Warsaw-based Zimmer Holding Inc. and Biomet Inc.—and not because of the 2010 health reform law.

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Much unknown about new Cook Group CEO

Carl Cook has been tabbed to replace his father, Bill Cook, who died a week ago. But many in the Bloomington business community know little about him, which reflects the company’s strict privacy policy.

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Irsay, Simon tie on magazine’s world’s-richest list

In a feat not possible for their teams, Indiana Pacers owner Herb Simon and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay tied for 879th place on Forbes magazine’s annual list of the richest people in the world. Bill Cook and Dean White also made the list.

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Indiana moves up in med tech rankings

Medical technology companies employed 19,950 Hoosiers in 2007 and supported another 35,000 jobs in supplier companies, according
to an analysis funded by an industry trade group.

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IU names basketball center after billionaire Cooks

Indiana University's new basketball training complex will be named after billionaire entrepreneur Bill Cook and his wife.
IU athletic director Fred Glass says the Cooks gave $15 million—the single largest gift in IU athletics history—toward
the nearly $20 million basketball training center.

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Indy without Lilly, the 500?

An Indiana University prof thinks Indianapolis should anticipate a future without Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and a potentially
reduced Eli Lilly and Co.

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