Health officials say U.S. adults who haven’t gotten any COVID-19 shots yet should consider a new option from Novavax. The protein-based shot is a more traditional kind of vaccine than the three brands available.
Health insurers in individual marketplaces across 13 states, including Indiana, and Washington, D.C., will raise rates an average of 10% next year, according to a review of rate filings by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
As part of the settlement, Indianapolis-based Envigo will relinquish 4,000 beagles at a dog-breeding facility to the Humane Society of the United States, or HSUS.
The stock sale is a primary way for the endowment, one of the largest private philanthropic foundations in the United States, to raise cash to make grants to arts, education, religious and community development organizations.
The split is the culmination of years of paring by the massive American conglomerate, which signaled a shift away from a corporate structure that dominated U.S. business for decades.
Dr. Julia Vaizer has spent the past year assisting Dr. Geoffrey Billows, the series’ longtime medical director, who announced that he will be stepping down.
Attorney Kathleen DeLaney sent the “cease and desist” letter to Indiana Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita on behalf of obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Bernard, who performed an abortion on the 10-year-old girl.
The United States’ first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline goes live on Saturday. Instead of a dispatcher sending police, firefighters or paramedics, 988 will connect callers with trained mental health counselors.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard’s attorney said the physician “took every appropriate and proper action in accordance with the law and both her medical and ethical training as a physician.”
Novavax makes a more traditional type of shot than the three other COVID-19 vaccines available for use in the U.S.—and one that’s already available in Europe and multiple other countries.
The surge reversed years of progress fighting one of the gravest public health challenges in modern medicine, according to a new analysis released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Biden administration on Monday said federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions.
For the first time, a pharmaceutical company has asked for permission to sell a birth control pill over the counter in the United States.
Officials warn of a possible fall or winter wave—perhaps as many as 100 million infections in the United States—that could again flood hospitals with COVID patients.
Indiana lawmakers have attempted to regulate the industry, but their regulations haven’t really taken hold.
A series of federal and state actions are putting the $400 billion PBM industry under a spotlight.
Indiana’s hospitals will continue their work with the employers in their communities on real solutions that improve the health of Hoosiers while bending the cost curve.
Ascension St. Vincent closed the facility just five years after opening it as the first in a new model of tiny hospitals around central Indiana.
Drug-induced abortions in 2021 comprised about 56% of Indiana abortions, a slight increase from 2020.
The renovated facility will be called Ethan Crossing of Indianapolis and feature a 42-bed hospital and inpatient behavioral health unit as well as a 46-bed residential Substance Use Disorder, or SUD, unit.
