May 6, 2013
J.K. WallThe effort to launch the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute got $25 million from the Legislature, but the life sciences
institutions backing the effort have set their funding sights much higher.
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January 21, 2013
J.K. WallDave Reed is president of the Healthcare Business Solutions group inside Bloomington-based Cook Medical Inc.
Since 2007, his team of 18 full-time people—aided by about 60 others throughout Cook’s organization—has
worked with hospital systems, distributors of medical products and group purchasing organizations to improve the efficiency
of the business side of health care and to make sure new products contribute to that efficiency, as well as solving unmet
medical needs.
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November 19, 2012
J.K. WallBloomington-based Cook Medical won approval for the first drug-coated stent for clogged leg arteries in the United States,
which accounts for 40 percent of the soon-to-be $3 billion market.
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September 20, 2012
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe widow of medical device pioneer Bill Cook ranks 104th with a net worth of $3.7 billion. Other Hoosiers to make the Forbes
400 list were shopping mall magnate and Indiana Pacers owner Herb Simon, hotel developer Dean White and Indianapolis Colts
owner Jim Irsay.
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September 10, 2012
J.K. WallBloomington-based Cook Medical announced a new division to capitalize on the growing market for minimally invasive procedures
to fix problems in ears, noses and throats, as well as other maladies of the head and neck.
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July 27, 2012
J.K. Wall
Cook Medical Inc. had been planning to open five new manufacturing plants over the next five years in small communities
around the Midwest, including Indiana, but has shelved those plans because of the hit it will take from a new U.S. tax on
medical devices.
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April 9, 2012
IBJ StaffBloomington-based medical device maker Cook Group has acquired General BioTechnology LLC, an Indianapolis biotech company
with about 20 employees, Cook Group announced Monday.
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April 4, 2012
Associated PressBloomington-based medical device maker Cook Group announced Tuesday it would restore the 750-seat Tivoli Theatre in downtown
Spencer, which was built in 1928 and boarded up in 1999.
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January 19, 2012
Bloomberg NewsU.S. medical device makers have spent the last year urging government officials to approve high-risk products faster, like
their European counterparts. A scandal over leaking breast implants made in France, however, may make the argument more difficult.
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October 13, 2011
Bloomberg NewsThe device would be the first drug-coated stent approved in the U.S. to treat peripheral vascular disease in the largest artery
of the upper leg.
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October 11, 2011
Bloomberg NewsPeripheral vascular devices, including stents, angioplasty balloons and synthetic grafts, generated $4.3 billion in global
revenue last year and may earn $5.6 billion in 2014.
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September 12, 2011
J.K. WallThe next four years could be rough for makers of medical devices and orthopedic implants, including Bloomington-based Cook
Medical Inc. and Warsaw-based Zimmer Holding Inc. and Biomet Inc.—and not because of the 2010 health reform law.
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April 22, 2011
Scott OlsonCarl Cook has been tabbed to replace his father, Bill Cook, who died a week ago. But many in the Bloomington business community
know little about him, which reflects the company's strict privacy policy.
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April 15, 2011
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe founder of Bloomington-based life sciences giant Cook Group Inc. and the wealthiest man in Indiana leaves a legacy of
dozens of historic structures saved from decay or demolition. He also was a major donor to Indiana University and its athletics
department.
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March 10, 2011
IBJ StaffIn a feat not possible for their teams, Indiana Pacers owner Herb Simon and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay tied for 879th
place on Forbes magazine’s annual list of the richest people in the world. Bill Cook and Dean White also made
the list.
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September 27, 2010
Bloomberg NewsA drug-coated stent from Indiana-based Cook Medical was more effective than standard therapy for patients with blockages in
an upper-leg artery, a study found.
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August 28, 2010
Cory Schouten
Bankrolled by yet another multimillionaire, the historic preservation group is preparing to move into a new headquarters
in Old Centrum, a former church now undergoing a big renovation.
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June 19, 2010
Martha P. AllanHealth care, plastics, other fundamental consumer needs kept some companies on upswings.
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June 16, 2010
J.K. WallMedical technology companies employed 19,950 Hoosiers in 2007 and supported another 35,000 jobs in supplier companies, according
to an analysis funded by an industry trade group.
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October 24, 2009
IBJ StaffBloomington-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.
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October 21, 2009
J.K. WallBloomington-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.
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October 20, 2009
J.K. WallFounder of medical device firm says Congress should fund network of low-cost clinics.
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October 10, 2009
IBJ StaffThe health reform bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., would help pay for expanded health insurance coverage
by levying fees of $13 billion a year on the health care industry. The fees would deliver a hefty bill to just
about all of Indiana’s major health care companies. But how they’re reacting to the fees is all over the map.
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August 12, 2009
J.K. WallBloomington-based Cook Medical has won European approval for a new artery-opening device for the legs that it predicts will
be a blockbuster.
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May 25, 2009
Taking science from the laboratory to the commercial market takes too much time and is littered with potential pitfalls along
the way.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.