Health Care Businesses

Senate rejects drug-importation proposal

December 16, 2009
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
The U.S. Senate voted down a plan Tuesday to allow Americans to import prescriptions from abroad, handing drug makers such as Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. a victory.
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Lilly wins approval for long-acting Zyprexa

December 14, 2009
J.K. Wall
Once-a-month injection of best-selling drug will have patents that could extend until 2018.
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Eli Lilly's shares slip after it forecasts mixed profits in coming years

December 10, 2009
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
The Indianapolis-based drugmaker predicts strong profits through 2011, but its forecast for 2012 suggests bottom-line results could fall precipitously.
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Lilly launching new venture capital fund

December 10, 2009
J.K. Wall
The fund would acquire experimental drugs and use Lilly R&D staff to try to prove their effectiveness, perhaps boosting Lilly's drug pipeline.
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Company's medical device earns expedited review

December 9, 2009
FAST Diagnostics LLC said initial human trials on its method to measure kidney function faster and more accurately than existing techniques could begin as early as next year, with commercialization following by 2012.
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Ariad asks court to restore patent-suit win against Lilly

December 8, 2009
 IBJ Staff
A federal appeals court will decide whether Eli Lilly and Co. must pay $65.2 million in damages, plus royalties, over a drug-patent claim.
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Part of Mississippi's Zyprexa case against Lilly dismissed

December 2, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. has won a bid to dismiss part of a negligence lawsuit brought by Mississippi that alleges improper marketing of antipsychotic drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses.
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Lilly extends research pact with India firm

December 1, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Jubilant Organosys Ltd. and Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. extended their collaboration, which began in 2005, by five years.
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Lilly's Cymbalta wins new approval for anxiety disorder

November 30, 2009
J.K. Wall
FDA action should boost sales of the Eli Lilly and Co. drug, which were already on pace to top $3 billion this year.
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Lilly stock droops after rival claims faster-acting impotence pill

November 18, 2009
 IBJ Staff
California-based Vivus claims its drug acts in 30 minutes, compared with about 2 hours for Lilly's Cialis.
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Arcadia sees bigger quarterly loss on lower revenue

November 16, 2009
J.K. Wall
Health care company Arcadia Resources Inc. saw growth in pharmacy business, offset by slower medical staffing sales.
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Aarden Pharmaceuticals chose Indianapolis over San Diego for headquarters

November 14, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Thanks partly to a state grant and support from Indiana’s BioCrossroads life sciences initiative, principals “decided locating here would give Aarden a better chance of success.
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Hill-Rom's fourth quarter profit exceeds expectations

November 12, 2009
 IBJ Staff
The Batesville-based maker of hospital equipment reported profit of $26.4 million, or 42 cents per share, in the period ended Sept. 30.
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Lilly to pay Utah $24 million to settle Zyprexa suit

November 11, 2009
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to pay Utah $24 million to settle a lawsuit claiming the company improperly marketed the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa.
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Arcadia adds Goldsmith to board, seeks $11M in offering

November 9, 2009
J.K. Wall
Indianapolis-based Arcadia Resources Inc. has added former Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith to its board and plans to raise $11.1 million in a registered direct stock offering.
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Struggling Bioanalytical Systems adds outsider to boardRestricted Content

November 7, 2009
Peter Schnitzler
Shareholders are starting to make inroads in their effort to turn struggling West Lafayette-based Bioanalytical Systems Inc. in a new direction.
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UPDATE: Life science firm to add 100 jobs at Park 100

November 6, 2009
 IBJ Staff
California-based life science firm Beckman Coulter Inc. is moving its precision plastics injection molding operation to the Park 100 business park on Indianapolis' northwest side, making what it calls a multimillion-dollar investment in the operation.
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TechPoint to focus on IT firms specializing in medical, life sciences sectorsRestricted Content

October 31, 2009
Chris O'Malley
Long tracking the emergence of information technology firms involved in the health and life sciences sector, the state’s IT trade group, TechPoint, is undergoing a mitosis of sorts to help fuel the trend. It has created Advancing Life Science & Health Care Information Technology, or ALHIT, which will focus on growing this subset of the IT realm.
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Doctors balk at Senate attempt to cut out wasteful health care spending

October 31, 2009
 IBJ Staff
The big goal of health care reform is to cut wasteful spending to pay for expanded health insurance coverage. But the way the Senate Finance Committee bill tries to do that would be, according to some doctors, “disastrous.”
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Lilly opens new biotech center in San Diego

October 29, 2009
J.K. Wall
Lilly is opening the San Diego biotech center a year after launching a biotech R&D center in Indianapolis.
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Lilly to move 1,000 from Faris campus

October 26, 2009
J.K. Wall
As it shrinks its work force, Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly and Co. will move more than 1,000 employees to its corporate center by mid-2010.
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Cook Group Inc. owner says health reform's tax on medical devices could kill jobs

October 24, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Bloomington-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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Lilly settles Zyprexa case with S. Carolina for $45M

October 23, 2009
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster said Friday that the state has reached a $45 million settlement with drug maker Eli Lilly and Co. over the company's marketing of an anti-psychotic drug.
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Eli Lilly CEO banking on new drug pipeline

October 22, 2009
Associated Press
CEO John Lechleiter says Lilly's pipeline has helped it rebound from significant patent losses three times during his 30-year career at the company. He's betting there will be a fourth.
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Zimmer profits fall, but beat expectations

October 22, 2009
J.K. Wall
The Warsaw-based company recorded a third-quarter profit of $150 million, down 30 percent from the same quarter a year ago.
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