The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to MBX to test a drug for post-bariatric hypoglycemia, a rare disease and a serious complication of bariatric surgery, the company said Monday.
The new effort involves Purdue University, the Indiana University School of Medicine and medical device company Cook Medical. It was created to develop new technologies for the underserved pediatric population.
Indiana University Health’s 70,000-square-foot pharmacy hub and distribution center in Plainfield has enough pills, lotions, and infusible and injectable drugs under one roof to supply its 16 hospitals and hundreds of clinics for weeks.
The list includes a hospital executive who collects guitars but can’t play them, and a health insurance leader whose dream job is to become a professional sports coach.
It’s turnaround time at Riverview Health, the small, 114-year-old hospital system owned by Hamilton County, which is trying to deal with competition from larger health care systems.
West Lafayette-based Neurava is one of 61 companies from around the world to showcase its medical technology as part of the 11th annual MedTech Innovator, billed as the largest accelerator of med tech companies.
IU Health expects to give about $690 million worth of work to diversity contractors. That’s 30% of $2.3 billion—the amount the hospital system says the project is worth after subtracting the cost of expensive medical equipment such as imaging scanners.
David Ricks, CEO of Indianapolis-based drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co., is turning up the volume on his concerns over a new law that would allow Medicare, for the first time, to negotiate drug prices.
In the health care world, Thermo Fisher Scientific operates mostly behind the scenes, supplying labs and hospitals with scientific instruments, chemical ingredients and software services.
The New Jersey-based company has announced two large rounds of layoffs at its Bloomington plant within six months—400 workers last December and 150 this month.
State lawmakers have earmarked $30 million in the 2023-2025 budget for an orthopedics-retention initiative.
An Indianapolis woman is suing Community Health Network after the hospital system mailed her test results to the wrong person and that person posted the information on Facebook.
In 2017, Donahue was part of a team that performed Indiana’s first intravaginal embryo culture with an FDA-approved device that allowed embryos to grow in a device inside the patient rather than in an incubator in a lab.
The initiative, which includes a study and recently received a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, will provide participants with healthy food, cooking classes and even cooking utensils to attempt to move the needle forward.
Officials of the two-year-old firm that provides professional services in the health care and life science industries expect the offering to raise up to $8 million.
A judge ruled that Indianapolis-based Lilly was liable for higher payments due to its behavior in making false statements to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about the prices it charged distributors for its drugs.
Senate Enrolled Act 8 is part of a sweeping effort this year by the Indiana General Assembly to bring down the cost of health care across the state, where prices are among the highest in the country.
The Bloomington-based maker of medical devices said the move is part of a new plan to strongly focus on product innovation.
Its new partner, Ascension St. Vincent, is building a four-story brain and spine hospital on its flagship campus on West 86th Street in Indianapolis, which will be largely staffed with physicians from Goodman Campbell.
A seven-year clinical trial concluded that NICO Corp.’s devices are safe and effective to treat intracerebral hemorrhage.
