In a kind of alternate drug universe, sales of Eli Lilly and Co.’s ghosts of blockbusters past are soaring in China—prompting the drugmaker to pour money into emerging markets in an attempt to prop up revenue.
A program to help Indiana University Health patients get discounted hotel rooms has ballooned in recent years to the size of a midsize convention.
As Eli Lilly and Co. outsources work and sheds unnecessary properties, it is making moves with surplus real estate that could establish the strongest physical connection between Lilly and downtown since the company was founded at Pearl and Meridian streets 135 years ago.
The Senate's criminal law committee voted 5-3 to advance to the full Senate the bill directing the criminal law and sentencing study committee to examine Indiana's marijuana laws next summer and make recommendations.
St. Vincent Health CEO Vince Caponi will take charge of three hospitals in Wisconsin that are also owned by St. Vincent’s parent organization, Ascension Health. He’ll also keep his current job.
Harlon Wilson, president of Indianapolis-based Medical Animatics, says the uncertainty created by the recession and now health care reform have dried up most opportunities for his 3-D animation firm to win new business with health care clients. So he’s looking at new markets—such as the recent online learning work for Harrison College that led Medical Animatics to sell some of its assets to the for-profit university. And Wilson is still banking on persistent needs to educate patients to cause health care to bounce back.
With electronic medical record systems proliferating, there’s information galore about patients. But it’s not so easy for patients to get at it. Now Fort Wayne-based NoMoreClipboard has been charged to design ways to fix that problem.
Changes unleashed by health reform are pushing Franciscan St. Francis Health’s expansion into Hamilton County—in addition to the obvious pull of the area’s well-heeled population.
A partnership called the Tobacco Retailer Inspection Program said Monday that sales of tobacco products to teen-agers occurred in less than 4 percent of more than 8,400 inspections.
Franciscan St. Francis Health plans to open a short-stay medical center in Carmel, creating 76 jobs by 2015, the health system announced Monday morning.
The effort to remove an 80-percent approval threshold for takeover bids against the wishes of Lilly’s board is on the agenda of the company’s April 18 annual meeting.
Roche Diagnostics Corp. is expanding one of its Indianapolis manufacturing plants to keep up with growing sales of its leading brand of blood glucose monitors.
The president of the Indiana Primary Health Care Association wants to double the number of federally qualified community health centers in Indiana in the next five years.
New investors got in for $6 a share—which is less than the average price paid by prior investors, a regulatory filing reveals.
Major health insurers, including WellPoint, say a provision that requires them to spend a certain percentage of the premiums they collect on care-related costs will eat into earnings this year.
The Indianapolis-based health care company lost $2.3 million on revenue of $26.2 million in its third fiscal quarter.
Boy does Gov. Mitch Daniels have an ultimatum for President Obama: Wave off the health reform law or else I’ll do nothing to help while it wreaks havoc on Hoosier citizens.
Eli Lilly and Co. can be credited with using acquisitions to unclog its product pipeline. It launched two drugs in the past 18 months, won market approval for a third and will likely get nods for two more drugs this year. Trouble is, they all have paltry sales prospects.
Eli Lilly and Co.’s PD2 project attracted 30,000 compounds from researchers in 26 countries. And Lilly scientist Alan Palkowitz said it’s just the first of many such collaborations.
Shares of biotechnology company Endocyte Inc. rose in afternoon trading Friday, after the company slashed pricing expectations for its initial public offering.
