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Health Care & Life Sciences
Zimmer's earnings slip, but beat expectations
January 31, 2013
IBJ StaffFourth-quarter profit fell 2 percent at Zimmer Holdings Inc. due to large accounting charges, but still beat the estimates
of Wall Street analysts.
MoreCold medicines could face tighter limits in Indiana
January 29, 2013
Associated PressAn Indiana Senate committee has backed tougher limits on quantities consumers may buy of cold medications that can be used
to make methamphetamine.
MoreLilly's profit drops 4 percent, but beats analysts' estimates
January 29, 2013
J.K. WallPrice increases and sales gains helped Eli Lilly and Co. offset declining revenue from its former blockbuster Zyprexa in the
fourth quarter, allowing the company to beat analysts' expectations and raise its 2013 profit forecast.
MoreLife sciences consultancy plans to expand, add 38 jobs
January 29, 2013
Indianapolis-based Pearl Pathways, founded by two former Eli Lilly employees, plans to move into new space in March and add
the jobs by 2016.
MoreIndiana lawmakers advance music therapist bill
January 28, 2013
Associated PressA bill that would certify Indiana therapists who specialize in using music to treat people with autism, Alzheimer's and
other conditions is advancing in the General Assembly.
MoreMarian med school oversubscribed
January 28, 2013
J.K. WallMarian University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine—only the second medical school in Indiana—will enroll
162 students this fall, about 8 percent more than it planned.
MoreZimmer highly exposed to health-reform risk
January 28, 2013
J.K. WallShares of Zimmer Holdings Inc. have generated impressive returns of 23 percent in the past year and some 2013 product launches
could juice those results even further. But the Warsaw-based maker of orthopedic implants is also the most-exposed company
in its industry to two key elements of health care reform: the medical device tax and bundled payments.
MoreOnce-thriving drug lab in turnaround mode
January 26, 2013
J.K. WallTwo years ago, executives at AIT Laboratories “took their eye off the ball,” and watched the company’s business
plummet 29 percent in value. Now, after two years of turmoil, the drug-testing lab says it’s poised to return to the
double-digit rates of growth that made it a local star.
MoreWellPoint beats analysts' estimates with 4th-quarter profit surge
January 23, 2013
Associated Press, J.K. WallThe Indianapolis-based health insurer earned $464 million, or $1.51 per share, in the fourth quarter, a 38-percent leap from
a year ago, and topped analysts' forecasts by 8 cents per share.
MoreGreenwood seeks funds back from drugmaker with big plans
January 22, 2013
J.K. WallGreenwood-based Elona Biotechnologies Inc., which has been trying to bring a generic version of insulin to market, was declared
in default on $8.4 million in incentives from the city of Greenwood.
MorePence wants $1.5M a year for life sciences institute
January 21, 2013
J.K. WallThe Indiana Applied Research Enterprise already has received support from John Lechleiter, CEO of Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly
and Co., as a place for collaboration between academic and industrial scientists.
MoreQ&A
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.
MoreShepherd Insurance agency goes on buying spree
January 21, 2013
J.K. WallThe Carmel insurance agency acquired three separate companies in a flurry of activity at the end of the year that will add
17 people to its staff.
MoreNew tool could drive down employers' health care costs
January 19, 2013
J.K. WallTen of Indiana’s largest employers—including the state of Indiana; Cummins Inc.; CNO Financial Group Inc.; Indiana,
Purdue and Butler universities; and Indiana University Health—think they have hit upon a solution.
MoreHealth insurance changes daunting for Indiana employers
January 19, 2013
Scott OlsonA portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requiring companies in 2014 to begin offering health insurance
to more workers is causing a lot of anxiety.
MoreSHORT: Obsolete laws, regulations stifle advance of 'telehealth'
January 19, 2013
Jeffrey W. Short / Special to IBJYou might remember seeing Elroy Jetson sitting in front of a television in the Jetson home, with Astro, his trusty dog, and
Jane, his mother, at his side, while the doctor appeared on the screen providing medical care to Elroy. This scene is no longer
so futuristic.
MoreLilly drug chosen for Alzheimer's prevention study
January 18, 2013
Associated PressResearchers have chosen an experimental drug by Eli Lilly and Co. for a large federally funded study testing whether it's
possible to prevent Alzheimer's disease in older people at high risk of developing it.
MoreRoche makes Fortune’s ‘Best Companies’ list
January 18, 2013
Roche Diagnostics Corp. in Indianapolis ranks 89th on the magazine's latest "Best Companies to Work For" list and was the
only Indiana-based company selected.
MoreInsurers may prove choosy with overhaul exchanges
January 17, 2013
Associated PressThe leader of the nation's largest health insurer warned Thursday not to assume widespread participation from his company
in part of health care overhaul's coverage expansion that unfolds later this year.
MoreIndiana Democrats pushing for more health care action
January 16, 2013
Associated PressDemocratic lawmakers pushed Wednesday for Indiana to take steps toward implementing the federal health care overhaul that
Republicans who control state government have so far rejected.
MoreIndiana hospitals restrict visits to limit flu spread
January 16, 2013
Associated PressHospitals across Indiana announced restrictions on visitors Wednesday in hopes of preventing the spread of flu, which has
claimed the lives of 27 people in the state this season.
MoreLilly's Amyvid receives European approval
January 16, 2013
Associated PressEuropean regulators approved the use of an imaging agent from Eli Lilly and Co., which can help doctors diagnose Alzheimer's
disease.
MoreAmerigroup chief emerges as a frontrunner for WellPoint job
January 15, 2013
Bloomberg NewsWellPoint Inc. is still considering former Amerigroup Corp. CEO James Carlson among several finalists to become CEO. Statements
and filings this month have fueled speculation among analysts and shareholders that Carlson has vaulted ahead of other prospects.
MoreAnthem pulling out of Quality Health First
January 14, 2013
J.K. WallSince 2009, Indianapolis-based Anthem has doled out $14.5 million in bonuses to physicians based on their scores in quality
reports generated by Quality Health First.
MoreFranciscan, American Health join new ACOs
January 14, 2013
J.K. WallFranciscan St. Francis Health and American Health Network continue to get deeper into the accountable care organization concept
being promoted by the federal Medicare program under the 2010 health reform law.
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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.