Indiana pharmacists could get the legal right to refuse to sell a common cold medicine used to make methamphetamine to suspicious customers under a bill a Senate committee approved Tuesday.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co., which has promised to return to growth after a half-decade of falling revenue, indicated that 2016 earnings might be below analysts’ estimates.
The rising figures reflect an industry-wide focus on drugs for rare and hard-to-treat diseases, which often come with streamlined reviews, extra patent protections and higher price tags.
A professor in the Indiana School of Medicine is hopeful that an antibiotic cocktail he invented will one day improve the lives of millions of people, thanks in part to the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., formed in 1997 to make work done by IU faculty and researchers available for commercial development.
The companies will work on coupling therapies from Lilly with technology from Halozyme Therapeutics that helps the body disperse and spread medicine.
The FDA said Wednesday it approved Basaglar based on data showing it is safe and effective and works similarly to Lantus, the world’s top-selling insulin.
A new study says women who took a common class of antidepressants during the second and third trimesters were more than twice as likely than other women to have children who later developed autism.
Eli Lilly said Friday that it decided to stop developing the insulin peglispro after learning that it would take more time and cost more than expected to understand a significant side effect.
With time running out on open-enrollment season, many seniors are facing sharply higher costs for Medicare's popular prescription drug program after a long stretch of stable premiums.
It's also the largest so-called inversion, where an American corporation combines with a company headquartered in a country with a lower corporate tax rate, saving potentially millions each year in U.S. taxes.
In a vote Tuesday, the American Medical Association called for an end to television commercials and magazine spreads that are used to pitch prescription drugs directly to consumers.
Bosma’s support could give the proposal its first real life in the General Assembly, which has for years eschewed prescription proposals in favor of laws that require pharmacies to track the people who purchase drugs containing pseudoephedrine, one of the ingredients that can be used to make meth.
The number of prescriptions for Addyi, the women’s libido-boosting pill, in its first few weeks? 227.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. and other U.S. drugmakers are being investigated by federal prosecutors over their drug-pricing practices related to Medicare and Medicaid, according to newspaper reports.
Rx Help Centers assists employers and customers as they navigate through the confusing web of prescription drug discounts. Business is so good that the company hopes to add 250 workers by 2017.
For the $300 billion pharmaceutical industry, the rapid growth of illegal underground marketplaces is a serious threat to profits and reputations.
Eli Lilly shares plunged nearly 10 percent Monday morning after it said it would stop development of evacetrapib, an experimental cholesterol drug with blockbuster potential.
A potential rheumatoid arthritis treatment from drugmakers Eli Lilly and Co. and Incyte Corp. fared better than another drug in late-stage testing, Lilly said Tuesday.
The settlement with France-based Sanofi SA clears up uncertainty over a drug that could rack up more than $1 billion in sales by 2020, according to Wall Street analysts.
An Indiana not-for-profit has dropped the price of a drug for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis roughly 90 percent after re-acquiring rights to the medicine from Rodelis Therapeutics.
