January 15, 2010
J.K. WallThe tiny Catholic institution in Indianapolis has $30 million raised toward new college that could train nearly half as many
students as the Indiana University medical school.
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January 14, 2010
IBJ StaffIllinois-based medical waste disposal firm Stericycle Inc. will expand its Indianapolis operations, creating as many as 109
jobs by 2011, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. announced Wednesday.
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January 13, 2010
IBJ StaffIndianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. reportedly joined fellow health insurance giants to fund TV ads as insurers tempered their
support for reform.
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January 13, 2010
J.K. WallClarian Health soon will restart work on a new tower at Riley Hospital for Children near downtown Indianapolis and
is set to lift other cost-saving restrictions.
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January 13, 2010
Associated PressThe letter to Indianapolis-based Lilly cites a print advertisement for the antidepressant Cymbalta that did not adequately
display information about the drug's side effects.
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January 12, 2010
J.K. WallRoche Diagnostics named a new CEO for its North American operations Tuesday to replace Michael Tillmann, who resigned on Friday.
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January 11, 2010
J.K. WallThe management change comes as the Indianapolis company's diabetes market share has been sliding. Roche says successor will
be named "shortly."
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January 9, 2010
J.K. WallDoctors are pushing again to strengthen their hands in contract negotiations with health insurers, especially market leader
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
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January 9, 2010
IBJ StaffHealth spending is growing slower than it has in 48 years, but whether health care reform will continue the trend is the
subject of debate here and around the country.
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January 9, 2010
J.K. WallStephanie DeKemper believes everything in her adult life has prepared her to run SynCare LLC. She’s so
sure that she’s buying the company.
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January 7, 2010
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe long-term outlook for health care reform is uncertain, but many analysts are expecting big health insurers like Indianapolis-based
WellPoint to benefit in 2010.
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January 7, 2010
IBJ StaffJohn J. Greisch was most recently president of international operations at Baxter International Inc.
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January 6, 2010
IBJ StaffLebanon-based hospital system also wants to refinance about $21 million in debt on new medical office building.
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January 5, 2010
Associated PressThe agency said the meeting was canceled "to allow time for the FDA to review new information" about a proposed new use for
the drug.
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January 2, 2010
Peter SchnitzlerRealMed enjoys a nearly 99-percent renewal rate among its current customers and attracted 4,000 new doctors
in 2009. Employment at the company is rising after a steady decline.
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January 2, 2010
IBJ StaffJim Pearson knows a thing or two about raising money from venture capitalists. And he has some advice for BioCrossroads:
Teach entrepreneurs the value of money.
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January 2, 2010
J.K. WallLegislation set to come out of Washington will not change the most fundamental problems of the health
care system, leaving it up to states, cities and companies to figure out what to do about it.
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December 31, 2009
Associated PressSo far this year, 35 people have died in Indiana from swine flu.
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December 30, 2009
Peter SchnitzlerLegal complaint alleges new $20 million facility in Greenwood breaches partnership deal struck in 2001.
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December 30, 2009
J.K. WallIndianapolis health care heavyweights are among those spending $635 million, employing 166 former aides to key congressional
leaders and committees in health reform process.
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December 26, 2009
J.K. WallAnother year of rapid change at Eli Lilly and Co. did little to move the company out from under the cloud cast by its best-selling
drug, Zyprexa.
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December 26, 2009
J.K. WallCongress is on the cusp of transforming health insurance—if it can pass a health reform bill that was losing popularity
late in the year.
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December 26, 2009
J.K. WallThe decade witnessed a massive terrorist attack, two wars, and a building-and-buyout boom fueled by easy credit.
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December 24, 2009
J.K. WallEli Lilly and Co. has bought the rights to co-market a new cholesterol-fighting drug in the U.S., giving it a third heart
drug for sales personnel
to push.
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December 23, 2009
J.K. WallExemption for not-for-profit health plans could saddle WellPoint with nearly $2 billion a year in new taxes.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.