Health Care Businesses

Lilly, GE announce cancer diagnostic breakthrough

October 21, 2009
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. and General Electric Co. say they've made a breakthrough in cancer research that could help Lilly cut the size and cost of its clinical trials.
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Lilly reports $942 million profit in third quarter

October 21, 2009
J.K. Wall
Excluding special items, Eli Lilly and Co.'s earnings per share spike 22 percent on the strength of Alimta, Cymbalta and Humalog sales. Lilly's revenue rose 7 percent in the quarter over the same period of 2008, to $5.56 billion.
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Medco plans to compare Plavix, Effient in study

October 20, 2009
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
Medco Health Solutions Inc. said Tuesday it will compare the blood thinner Plavix, the world's second-best selling drug, with Effient, a potential blockbuster drug sold by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co.
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Cook calls for new approach to health reform

October 20, 2009
J.K. Wall
Founder of medical device firm says Congress should fund network of low-cost clinics.
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Endocyte receives $26M infusion from investors

October 16, 2009
West Lafayette-based Endocyte Inc. announced Friday that it has closed on $26 million in equity financing to help the company continue developing cancer-fighting drugs.
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Lilly to pay Idaho $13M in drug settlement

October 14, 2009
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
Idaho is getting $13 million as part of a settlement reached with Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. over its marketing of anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa.
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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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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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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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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 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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UPDATE: Pipeline challenges force Lilly restructuring moves

September 14, 2009
J.K. Wall
Since John Lechleiter was named CEO 18 months ago, he's bet that Eli Lilly and Co. could face down its looming patent challenges by launching innovative new medicines. Today's announcement of 5,500 job cuts by the end of 2011 and a restructuring of the company's business units ups the ante on that bet, while indicating that it isn't working yet.
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Lilly reorganization to cut 5,500 positions over 2 years

September 14, 2009
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. will cut 5,500 jobs by the end of 2011 as it tries to cut $1 billion in expenses before it loses revenue from its bestselling drug, Zyprexa. Lilly CEO John Lechleiter said he did not know how many of those cuts would occur in central Indiana. But with 13,600 employees working in the Indianapolis area, he acknowledged the largest chunk of reductions likely would come here.
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Study weakens Lilly's fight against price controls

September 12, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Eli Lilly and Co. and its peers might be back in Congress’ sights as lawmakers hunt for more ways to cut health care costs. A new study in the influential Health Affairs journal concludes that European drugmakers operating in markets with pharmaceutical price controls have produced proportionally more innovations than their U.S. counterparts.
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Medical device developer receives $1M in federal funding

September 10, 2009
Scott Olson
Indianapolis-based FAST Diagnostics, a developer of a method to quickly measure kidney function, announced today that it has received $1 million in federal funding.
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Lilly paid doctors to prescribe Zyprexa, notes say

September 8, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Eli Lilly and Co. paid doctors in South Carolina for participating in a speakers' program in exchange for prescribing the antipsychotic Zyprexa, according to notes by Lilly sales representatives reviewed by Bloomberg News.
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Venture firms recapitalize Advanced Physical Therapy LLC

August 29, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Locally based venture capital firms Cardinal Equity Partners and Centerfield Capital Partners have joined with Chicago-based bank Harris NA to recapitalize the state’s largest independent physical therapy provider.
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AIT Laboratories leaps up Inc.'s list

August 24, 2009
 IBJ Staff
The Indianapolis-based forensics, clinical and pharmaceutical testing firm now ranks 598, up from 1,466 a year ago. The list is based on percentage of revenue growth.
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Lilly pays $224,000 to area doctors

August 17, 2009
 IBJ Staff
It’s no secret that Eli Lilly and Co. is the biggest private employer in the Indianapolis area. But Lilly also supplemented the incomes of a few dozen local doctors — to the tune of more than $224,000 in just the first quarter.
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DailyMed sales trim Arcadia losses

August 13, 2009
J.K. Wall
Arcadia Resources Inc. narrowed its losses in its most recent quarter as it started to accelerate sales in its highly-touted DailyMed program, the company said today.
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Abatement approval paves way for Covance jobs

August 12, 2009
Scott Olson
The Hancock County Council this morning unanimously approved a tax-incentive agreement that should lead Covance Inc. to add 315 jobs at its Greenfield Laboratories.
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Cook predicts blockbuster with new stent

August 12, 2009
J.K. Wall
Bloomington-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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Lilly software spinoff Maaguzi sells for $11 millionRestricted Content

August 3, 2009
Chris O'Malley
Investors in a company built around clinical research software bought from Eli Lilly and Co. have found their exit, though it’s far from the lucrative payoff they’d once imagined.
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