August 24, 2009
IBJ StaffThe 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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August 24, 2009
Chris O'MalleyIndustry groups in the life sciences, medical and information technology realms have helped lure companies to the region
and foster upstarts. Funding is almost always an issue, but it’s not the only barrier. Getting medical
devices to market often requires product design, development and marketing resources that aren’t
always apparent to upstarts.
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August 24, 2009
J.K. WallIndianapolis physicians are mixed on the merits of a government-run, "public" health insurance plan. How reforms
might affect their pay is another major concern.
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August 21, 2009
IBJ StaffCommunity Health Network has chosen Anthony Lennen as president of Community Hospital South and Dr. Robin Ledyard as president
of Community Hospital East, the health care system announced this morning.
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August 18, 2009
J.K. WallEli Lilly and Co. pulled the plug on yet another drug in its pipeline that was in the late stages of testing, further complicating
the company’s attempts to find revenue before losing patent protection on its bestseller.
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August 18, 2009
IBJ StaffCommunity Health Network and the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township will open a new community health center inside
the Renaissance School, at 30th Street and Post Road in Indianapolis, the two organizations announced today.
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August 17, 2009
IBJ StaffIt’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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August 17, 2009
Cory SchoutenSafeco is leaving a five-building complex on North Meridian Street, and Eli Lilly and Co. has offered for lease its entire
four-building Faris campus.
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August 17, 2009
Chris O'MalleyFor a city feverishly growing its technology and life sciences sectors, it seemed a bit anticlimactic last January when
Purdue University dedicated its new technology center with only one tenant. But the lone tenant in the $12.8
million complex, FlamencoNets, a high-tech telecommunications firm, is about to get some company.
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August 17, 2009
Mike HicksIn almost every place that two or more Americans gather, health care is debated. Because the bills before Congress are
inaccessible, the debate has shifted instead to principles such as the role of government and individual freedoms. I think
this a healthy thing.
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August 13, 2009
J.K. WallArcadia 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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August 12, 2009
Scott OlsonThe 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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August 12, 2009
J.K. WallBloomington-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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August 11, 2009
J.K. WallWellPoint Inc.'s internal audit and chief compliance officer - and highest-ranking black executive - will leave the company
later this month, according to a companywide e-mail sent out yesterday.
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August 10, 2009
J.K. WallCarmel-based Conseco Inc. faces a shareholder lawsuit by a union pension fund over an earnings restatement the company made
18 months ago.
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August 10, 2009
Chris O'MalleyMore emerging life science companies have found life in the form of federal
Small Business Innovation Research grants.
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August 10, 2009
IBJ StaffA panel of five leaders of the state’s life sciences
industry took on a wide range of topics
July 24 at IBJ’s Power Breakfast
at the Westin Indianapolis.
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August 10, 2009
Peter SchnitzlerEli Lilly and Co. has reorganized its venture capital division and simultaneously poured in an additional $25 million.
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August 10, 2009
J.K. WallIn the eyes of Scott Law, Congress is heading in exactly the wrong direction on health care reform.
But the
CEO of Zotec Partners predicts a big bump in sales for his physician-billing management company if current reform proposals
become law.
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August 10, 2009
IBJ StaffIf one of the more liberal health care reform proposals becomes law, Hoosier taxpayers would have to spend $425 more per
person every year for the next decade, according to a study released Aug. 4 by Florida-based conservative policy group Arduin
Laffer & Moore Econometrics.
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August 7, 2009
Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. topped analysts' expectations in its fiscal third
quarter even as hospital-spending cuts clipped its revenue by 9 percent, the company announced late yesterday.
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August 4, 2009
J.K. WallConseco Inc. recorded profit at the high-end of its preliminary
estimates, the company announced today.
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August 4, 2009
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. today said it is offering buyouts to its U.S. sales force,
with hopes of trimming about 300 sales representatives before a sales restructuring set to begin in January, Reuters reported.
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August 3, 2009
Anthony SchoettleThe Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association is putting together an all-star corporate consortium to make the city
a hub for medical and life sciences conventions, meetings and trade shows. The ICVA began running the initiative
full-speed this year and already has signed deals to bring 40 medical meetings to Indianapolis through 2015, including annual
meetings for the American Association of Diabetes Educators in 2012 and the American College of Sports Medicine and American
Chemical Society in 2013.
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August 3, 2009
Chris O'MalleyInvestors 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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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.