Medco Health Solutions Inc. said Tuesday it will compare the blood thinner Plavix, the world’s second-best selling drug, with
Effient, a potential blockbuster drug sold by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co.
Founder of medical device firm says Congress should fund network of low-cost clinics.
Fear of death may be causing Americans to expect too much from our medical system when it comes to prolonging the lives of
the old and infirm.
Manchester College officials say they want to start a pharmacy school in Fort Wayne starting in the fall of 2012.
West Lafayette-based Endocyte Inc. announced Friday that it has closed on $26 million in equity financing to help the company
continue developing cancer-fighting drugs.
Some of Indiana’s leading organizations in health information technology are collaborating on an effort to receive several
million dollars of stimulus funding.
This flu season looks to provide us an inkling of the real dangers inherent in large-scale health care reform, most especially
a full-blown national health care option.
The health insurance industry’s sudden counterpunch to the Senate version of health reform echoed in Indiana and
opened a key issue for the rest of the debate: Will covering half of the country’s uninsured mean raising premiums for
the 85 percent of Americans who already have insurance?
Indiana is ending its troubled $1.34 billion deal with a team of vendors to automate the application process for food stamps,
Medicaid and other benefits.
As health care legislation
continues to wend its way through Congress, Indianapolis-area industry leaders still harbor strong
opinions about the issue. Five industry insiders discussed how to improve the health care system during
IBJ’s Power Breakfast Sept. 25 at the Westin Indianapolis.
An ordinance that would prohibit lighting up in bars, bowling alleys and nightclubs, and nearby outdoor seating areas as well, was endorsed 4-2 by a City-County Council committee Wednesday night.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given Purdue University a nearly $1 million grant to study ways that genomics can be
used to enhance the value of certain plants while making them more resilient to climate stress.
A peer-review panel of experts would help minimize unnecessary medical malpractice suits.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana has cut 25 jobs and will close six health centers around the state as part of a restructuring
it attributed to a decline in federal funding.
Idaho is getting $13 million as part of a settlement reached with Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. over its marketing of
anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa.
Nearly 700 workers will be offered severance, new jobs
Presenting five video excerpts from a free-wheeling panel discussion about health-care reform featuring five of the city’s
top minds and decision-makers. Reporter J.K. Wall moderates the IBJ’s Power Breakfast on Sept. 25, covering tort reform,illegal
immigrants, pay models and the role of insurance companies.
UnitedHealthcare has become the second health insurer to join Quality Health First, a pay-for-performance program operated
by the Indiana Health Information Exchange, the exchange announced Tuesday.
The insurance industry sharply escalated its criticism of the Senate health care bill Sunday, charging that the legislation
would shift costs to privately insured people, raising the price of a typical policy by hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars
annually.
Shares of WellPoint Inc. partially recovered Friday morning after a plunge was touched off Thursday by gathering momentum behind health care reform and talk of a windfall-profit tax by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
