It was a mating dance that lasted more than three years. At the end, Eli Lilly and Co. wound up buying a Massachusetts-based biotech developing treatments for inflammatory bowel disease for $3.2 billion.
Shortages of brand-name drugs made by Novo and Eli Lilly and Co. have allowed pharmacies to make what are essentially copies, and telehealth companies like Hims are selling them to patients at a steep discount.
The Roche drug is a once-daily pill, compared to Lilly’s tirzepatide, sold under the brand names Mounjaro (for diabetes) and Zepbound (for obesity), which is a once-weekly shot.
The Indianapolis-based health insurance giant posted solid second-quarter results, but emerging pressure in Medicaid appeared to spook investors.
The expansion plan includes construction of a 100,000-square-foot building on its corporate campus and the addition of 100 jobs.
The state’s largest health care provider said the five-story hospital will include 140 beds, 17 emergency department exam rooms, and six operating rooms.
The donation, the largest individual gift in Marian’s history, came from Julie Wood—on behalf of the Tom & Julie Wood Family Foundation.
The Labor Department filed a complaint this week in U.S. District Court against the owner of eight Indianapolis-area health care services companies, saying an estimated 700 employees might have been shortchanged by his practices.
Stevanato, an Italian-based life sciences company that makes glass vials and syringes for pharmaceuticals, has committed to paying employees at its new Fishers facility no less than $70,000 annually.
The study followed a group of testicular cancer survivors for an average of 14 years, revealing that 78% experience significant difficulties in everyday listening situations.
There have been only a handful of previous $1 billion donations to universities in the U.S., most coming in the past several years.
If you’re hearing about more people testing positive or getting sick, it’s no surprise, as data shows another wave forming.
The number of deaths in Marion County due to suspected overdoses dropped 28% in the first quarter of 2024, according to a new report that seeks to give health officials a sharper perspective of the use of substances that lead to fatalities.
Former Gov. Mitch Daniels first introduced the consumer-driven, cost-sharing approach in 2007 when the state expanded Medicaid to moderate-income workers. Gov. Mike Pence developed the program even further.
Some of America’s seniors will see their out of pocket costs fall for more than five dozen drugs—including treatments for osteoporosis and cancer—as part of the White House’s crackdown on rising pharmaceutical prices.
For the first time in years, certain Indiana Medicaid beneficiaries will start paying premiums again—a concern for advocates who say that enrollees are unprepared and point to federal concerns about the rule’s effectiveness.
Not counting the $335 million complex announced earlier this month, the county already is home to 11 acute-care and specialty hospitals with a total of nearly 800 beds—while many Indiana counties have no hospitals, or a single facility with less than 50 beds.
The race to score blockbuster weight-loss drugs like Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro and Zepbound is pushing one of the world’s largest population of people with obesity to creative lengths.
The agreement with the airport authority comes as the organization moves forward with plans to decommission the Indianapolis Downtown Heliport, where IU Health’s LifeLine transport operations for the city are based.
Officials with IU Health gave what they called a “summer update” on Wednesday and sounded optimistic about the project, one of the most expensive in Indiana history.
