Crawfordsville startup CorVus fattens pigs for science
The newly built farm uses a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet to give animals heart disease and diabetes to help medical researchers find treatments.
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Major health initiative targets 3 Indianapolis neighborhoods with high diabetes rates
A five-year, $7 million program is led and supported by a coalition of local health institutions, including Eli Lilly and Co., Fairbanks School of Public Health and Eskenazi Health. It is based on a model that Lilly has used in other countries.
Eli Lilly’s next big push likely to come in pain treatments
The Indianapolis-based drugmaker has several pain medications in the pipeline, including potential treatments for migraine headaches, arthritis and chronic back pain.
IU School of Medicine leader finalist for new job in Oregon
Dr. Jay Hess is one of three finalists to become president at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, according to The Oregonian.
Drug industry sets lobbying records as pricing pressure looms
The drug industry set several quarterly records for lobbying spending in the first three months of 2018, but Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. actually reduced lobbying expenditures.
Indiana gets another $11M to combat heroin, opioid abuse
The Health and Human Services funding is among $485 million recently awarded nationwide to combat heroin and opioid abuse.
Cigna-Express Scripts deal to face Justice Department review
Cigna Corp. confirmed that its proposed $54 billion acquisition of Express Scripts Holding Co. will be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which has raised the bar for approving deals that don’t combine direct competitors.
HHS secretary Alex Azar hires Indy insurance exec in key advisory role
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, a former Eli Lilly and Co. executive who was hospitalized twice this week, has hired Jim Parker, president and CEO of MDwise and a former longtime executive at Anthem Inc.
Americans filling far fewer opioid prescriptions, new report says
The number of prescriptions for opioid painkillers filled in the United States fell dramatically last year, showing their biggest drop in 25 years.
Mainstreet retools, says old strategy ‘broke down’
For more than a decade, Zeke Turner built scores of senior-care facilities. But in the past year, Mainstreet has been reeling from an unexpected slowdown in sales of its properties.
St. Vincent rethinks how to deliver care; struggling parent cuts costs
Jonathan Nalli has a message for his 16,000 employees at St. Vincent Health: Get ready for more transformation and disruption.
Carmel postpones hearing on St. Vincent project after neighbors, officials demand details
Carmel has postponed a rezoning hearing on a developer’s vague plan to build a medical complex at 96th Street and Spring Mill Road for St. Vincent Health. Carmel officials say they won’t consider a rezoning without specifics about the project.
Indiana-based Rose Acre Farms recalls 200M eggs over salmonella concerns
A notice posted on the Food & Drug Administration website says the eggs shipped to restaurants and grocery stores in nine states may be tainted with salmonella.
IU Health plans $55M cancer center on North Hospital campus in Carmel
The Indianapolis-based health system will present details Tuesday to the Carmel Plan Commission for the two-story, 88,000-square-foot building.
Anthem among health care’s biggest gainers from federal tax cuts
Four of the 20 biggest health-care companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index saw a benefit from the tax overhaul in the fourth quarter. Among them was Indianapolis-based Anthem Inc.
Local health care software firm raises $7 million in capital
Indianapolis-based Hc1.com Inc., which sells customer-management software to health care enterprises, has raised three sizable rounds of capital in four years.
UPDATE: St. Vincent CEO confirms land option at 96th & Spring Mill
But Jonathan Nalli said the health system has no plans to build a $1 billion hospital complex.
Rare loss for Big Pharma will cost industry billions
Drugmakers will have to offer a much more generous discount to Medicare beneficiaries who fall into the so-called donut hole coverage gap.
Indiana group to create app to teach doctors about opioids
The Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation awarded $230,000 to the Indiana State Medical Association this week to develop the app and an accompanying podcast.
Transforming Methodist: IU Health figuring out what to demolish, save
By the end of the year, officials expect to unveil its master plan to remake the state’s largest hospital—currently an amalgamation of ancient health care amenities and modern facilities.