Health Care & Life Sciences

Lilly to sell Lafayette plant to German firm

October 14, 2009
J.K. Wall
Nearly 700 workers will be offered severance, new jobs
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Indiana Health Information Exchange lands big insurer

October 13, 2009
J.K. Wall
UnitedHealthcare has become the second health insurer to join Quality Health First, a pay-for-performance program operated by the Indiana Health Information Exchange, the exchange announced Tuesday.
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Dow AgroSciences ratcheting up biotech effortsRestricted Content

October 10, 2009
Scott Olson
Dow AgroSciences' introduction of a promising new product is helping transform the Indianapolis company as it transitions from a focus on traditional agricultural chemicals to genetically altered seeds. The subsidiary of Michigan-based Dow Chemical Co. partnered with St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. to develop what could become its biggest blockbuster, a genetically modified corn variety it calls SmartStax.
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New Community Hospital East president pursues care for all

October 10, 2009
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
The new president of Community Hospital East says her job is all about health—the health of not just patients, but the entire neighborhood.
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WellPoint memos show job cuts starting with mid-level execs

October 10, 2009
J.K. Wall
With a national unemployment rate of nearly 10 percent eroding its customer base, WellPoint Inc. is cutting at least 30 middle-management employees and reshuffling its corporate organization, according to internal memos obtained by IBJ.
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My Health Care Manager lands $3 million investmentRestricted Content

October 10, 2009
Peter Schnitzler
The company, which guides working adults and their parents through the maze of decisions and agencies involved in care for seniors, plans to use the money primarily to augment its sales staff and operations.
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Proposed Fishers medical park faces uncertain demandRestricted Content

October 10, 2009
Scott Olson
The business park would encompass about 900 acres on the town’s northeast side and require rezoning of much of the land, from residential and agriculture to commercial.
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Baucus health reform bill would stick Indiana companies with fees

October 10, 2009
 IBJ Staff
The 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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Indiana life sciences leaders discover dozens of tiny outsourcing companiesRestricted Content

October 10, 2009
Chris O'Malley
BioCrossroads, an Indianapolis-based not-for-profit, is cataloging Indiana businesses offering contract services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and discovering many small firms operating in relative obscurity.
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WellPoint shares partially recover after Thursday plunge

October 9, 2009
J.K. Wall
Shares of WellPoint Inc. partially recovered Friday morning after a plunge was touched off Thursday by gathering momentum behind health care reform and talk of a windfall-profit tax by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
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Lilly settles Zyprexa suit with S. Carolina

October 7, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to settle the State of South Carolina's lawsuit that claimed Lilly improperly marketed the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, according to Bloomberg News.
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Health reform could swamp doctors

October 3, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Health reform that would cover millions of uninsured Americans would theoretically send a flood of new patients to physicians. Yet in Indiana and nationwide, there’s already a shortage of doctors.
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IUPUI researchers land $22M in stimulus grants

October 1, 2009
J.K. Wall
Researchers at IUPUI have been awarded more than $22.3 million in grants by the National Institutes of Health, according to U.S. Rep. Andre Carson. The money is part of a $5 billion program that was part of the federal stimulus bill approved earlier this year, and will fund medical research across the country.
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Dow Agro to become Purdue research tenant

September 30, 2009
Officials of Purdue University and Dow AgroSciences unveiled a collaboration Wednesday in which the Indianapolis-based company will become one of the largest tenants at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette.
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Indiana hospitals settle Medicare lawsuit

September 30, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Six hospital systems, including three in Indiana, have agreed to pay the federal government $8.3 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging the hospitals deliberately overcharged Medicare for routine back surgeries.
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Hospitals, doctors finally integrating patient care

September 26, 2009
J.K. Wall
The stitching together of doctors and hospitals—two groups that historically have kept each other at arm’s length—is a trend picking up speed locally and nationally and could accelerate even further if Congress passes health care reform.
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Region below average on Obama's health care cost measureRestricted Content

September 26, 2009
J.K. Wall
The tool the administration is using to measure waste shows that expenses in Indianapolis might be low enough not to get whacked. But the region isn’t performing so well that it’s likely to get much praise, either.
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St. Francis resumes work on $265M project

September 24, 2009
J.K. Wall
With its financial performance exceeding expectations, St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers will resume construction on a $265 million, 221-bed patient tower at its Indianapolis campus, the hospital system announced Thursday.
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Lilly's win in Evista patent case crucial, analyst says

September 24, 2009
Scott Olson
A decision by a federal judge in Indianapolis to turn back a patent challenge to Eli Lilly and Co.'s Evista marks a major victory for the company, says an analyst who closely follows the pharmaceutical industry.
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Judge upholds Lilly's Evista patent

September 24, 2009
J.K. Wall
A federal judge in Indianapolis turned back a patent challenge to Eli Lilly and Co.’s drug Evista, the company announced late yesterday.
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Lilly Endowment funds OrthoWorx effort with $7 million

September 23, 2009
J.K. Wall
A new group expected to develop the orthopedic implants industry in Warsaw will be able to proceed now that Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. is putting $7 million behind it, according to an announcement this morning.
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Lilly agrees to settle more state Zyprexa suits

September 22, 2009
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to confidential terms to settle lawsuits brought by seven states alleging the company illegally marketed bestselling antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, Bloomberg News reported today.
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Mead Johnson plans expansion in Evansville

September 21, 2009
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
Mead Johnson Nutrition plans to spend nearly $33 million at a southwestern Indiana facility where it plans to start making powdered infant formula products.
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Chamber puts support behind Wishard hospital proposal

September 21, 2009
J.K. Wall
The Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce announced its support for construction of a new Wishard Hospital and promised to take a leadership position to help hospital leaders win voter approval for the project.
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Lilly revises playbook in effort to score more 'touchdowns'

September 19, 2009
J.K. Wall
The drugmaker has successfully moved experimental drugs into position to win approval by regulators. But only once in the last four years has a new drug actually made it to market—the industry’s equivalent of getting across the goal line.
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  1. Saw the Indy Men's Chorus "Music of Gilbert & Sullivan" at the Indiana Historical Society on Sunday evening.

  2. Temporary workers are not "tools" they are people and companies that keep large amounts of temp staff are cheating.

  3. I miss having them around. I hope one of their stores is in the general Meridian/86th Street area. I will make good use of it.

  4. The Fringe! Plus, the simple fact that there are so many local faves in such close proximity to each other.

  5. I remenber, watching the toll road, being built, through South Bend, when I was 10 years old. I believe, back then that it was estimated, that the toll road, would be paid for in 20 years and then it would be free. I am now 71, what happened? Since the power is in the people, by that, I mean that, we the people are in total control of everything. I, suggest that no one ever use the toll road again, let it go broke. We the people can control the price of everything, from groceries to gas, if we would just do it. If we don't pay the asking price, the sellers will lower the price and if we wait awhile, they will lower the price to what we accept as reasonable. I would like to know why a highway like interstate 94, is so well maintained, a much better highway, than the toll road, but has no tolls. I would also like to know why, a sitting governor, with a term limit, maximum of eight years, can lease, public property, for 75 years. Even though I have transponders in both of my trucks and will not be affected by the increase, I have been and will contine to avoid using the toll road. I make many trips from northern Indiana to Chicago, every year, and I prefer the better highway, I94!

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