Glick support boosts IU eye research
A $10 million research endowment at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute has attracted seven new researchers to the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Ophthalmology Department.
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Inventor on quest to bring medical device to market
Licensed practical nurse Nic Davis invented a device to kill and prevent the introduction of microorganisms that collect at catheter ports.
Health care VC slows in 2011
Four Hoosier companies attracted more than $10.5 million, down from 10 companies that attracted $18.5 million during the first half of 2010.
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The adult smoking rate in Indiana dropped to 21.2 percent last year, a major reduction from the 27 percent rate logged five years ago. Karla Sneegas, assistant commissioner of the State Health Department’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Commission, discussed the progress, as well as her agency’s efforts to help employers help their workers quit smoking.
Five individual insurers leaving Indiana
Hartford-based Aetna Inc. and Philadelphia-based Cigna Corp., the nation’s third- and fifth-largest health insurers respectively, have announced their departure from Indiana’s individual health insurance market.
Zimmer playing hardball with plaintiffs’ lawyers
The Warsaw-based company has sued seven law firms this year and sent warning letters to at least three more, saying their ads and Internet postings distorted the safety record of its $1.8 billion-a-year knee business.
Orthopedics company plans $27M Indiana project
Warsaw-based DePuy Orthopaedics expects to spend $20 million on manufacturing equipment and $7 million on research and development equipment and have it installed before 2014.
Medical implant maker plans move from northern Indiana
Rochester Medical Implants plans to move operations from Rochester to Noblesville in October. The company has 28 employees.
Aetna latest out of Indiana individual health market
The nation's third-largest health insurance company is the latest to leave the individual policy market in Indiana in another sign of diminishing competition.
Endocyte completes secondary public offering
The West Lafayette-based biotech firm raised about $66.8 million by selling nearly 6.7 million shares of company stock, priced at $12.26 per share.
Indiana asks court to lift Planned Parenthood order
Indiana asked a federal appeals court Monday to lift a judge's order blocking parts of a new abortion law that cuts some public Planned Parenthood funding, saying the issue should be decided by Medicaid officials and not the courts.
Consumers grow allergic to health care costs
Deloitte found that 20 percent of consumers have cut back on health care spending and 75 percent say the economic slowdown has had some impact on their willingness to spend on health care.
WellPoint fails to profit on consumer pullback
With recession-weary Americans going to the doctor less, health insurer WellPoint Inc. should be enjoying higher profits. But it isn’t working out that way.
Lilly wins appeals court ruling in Strattera patent case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., overturned Friday a judge’s decision that Lilly’s patent on attention-deficit treatment Strattera was invalid.
Timmy Foundation changes name to reflect global reach
The organization that organizes medical teams to serve overseas is now called Timmy Global Health.
Eli Lilly’s Elanco unit blossoming at just the right time
An investment firm projects that the Elanco animal-health business will generate sales of nearly $2 billion by 2012 and surpass $3 billion by 2018.
Experts tell state panel marijuana prohibition has failed
A state panel heard from a parade of experts Thursday as it began studying whether to legalize marijuana in Indiana or reduce criminal penalties on small amounts of the drug.
St. Vincent plans 200 jobs for Fishers expansion
The hospital system said it will expand its Medical Center Northeast facility to a 40-bed inpatient hospital. Construction is set to begin in September and should be completed by December 2012.
Health care use trend may temper premium hikes
Consumers may catch a little break when their health insurance policies renew. Lower-than-expected use of health care has helped push insurer earnings higher and that may temper how much they increase premiums.
Indiana life sciences leaders look toward the future
Former Eli Lilly and Co. vice president Richard Dimarchi, BioCrossroads President David Johnson, angel investor Oscar Moralez and Purdue University Senior Vice President Alan Rebar discuss issues ranging from the depth of the life sciences industry in Indiana to venture capital and Purdue’s Discovery Park.