The awards of $500 each total $62,500. “In lieu of doing a party, it was more
appropriate and more the corporate culture of Gregory & Appel to do something charitable,”
Vice President Steve Appel said.
Bloomington-based Cook Group Inc. might have to cut as many as 1,000 local jobs if Congress enacts a tax on medical devices
to pay for health care reform, company founder Bill Cook said in an interview.
Sales of Eli Lilly and Co.’s newest drug were an afterthought during its Oct. 21 report on third-quarter earnings. The blood thinner Effient totaled up $22.6 million in sales—a mere 0.4 percent of Lilly’s total for
the quarter.
CEO John Lechleiter says Lilly’s pipeline has helped it rebound from significant patent losses three times during his 30-year
career at the company. He’s betting there will be a fourth.
The Warsaw-based company recorded a third-quarter profit of $150 million, down 30 percent from the same quarter a year ago.
Goodwill Industries executive Keith Reissaus has been tapped to run Washington, D.C.-based Leapfrog Group, an industry coalition.
Reissaus gained control of health care costs by giving employees incentives to care about their health.
Employment in Indiana’s insurance industry has remained stable despite a poor economy.
Eli Lilly and Co. and General Electric Co. say they’ve made a breakthrough in cancer research that could help Lilly cut the size and cost of its clinical trials.
For the first time publicly, Eli Lilly and Co. officials admitted the obvious: Their pipeline products
aren’t likely to offset the revenue the company will lose after its two bestsellers, Zyprexa and Cymbalta, lose patent exclusivity.
Top Senate Democrats intend to try to strip the health insurance industry of its exemption from federal antitrust laws, according
to congressional officials, the latest evidence of a deepening struggle over President Barack Obama’s effort to overhaul the
health care industry.
Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. plans to close one of its southern Indiana facilities and cut jobs at another.
Excluding special items, Eli Lilly and Co.’s earnings per share spike 22 percent on the strength of Alimta, Cymbalta and Humalog
sales. Lilly’s revenue rose 7 percent in the quarter over the same period of 2008,
to $5.56 billion.
Bloomington-based Cook Group Inc. could find itself cutting as many as 1,000 local jobs if Congress enacts a tax on
medical devices to pay for health care reform, company founder Bill Cook said in an interview.
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.
