In the last six months we have been concerned with falling numbers—sales, stock prices, 401(k) values, the bottom line. More
recently, however, I have been concerned with rising numbers—blood pressure, cholesterol, prostate antigens, the waistline.
Most of us were taught to give thanks to those who do well and make our lives better. Some of us would like to give our hearty
thanks to Mel and Herb Simon and their families for all they’ve done in our community and statewide.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the first U.S. death from the latest human strain of the swine flu: a 23-month-old child from Texas. The number of confirmed cases stands at 71 people across the country. State health officials announced the first confirmed case in Indiana yesterday – a University of Notre […]
Dr. David S. Wilkes will succeed Dr. Ora Pescovitz as the Indiana University School of Medicine’s executive associate dean of research affairs, the school announced this morning. Wilkes, a professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology and immunology, is also the co-founder of ImmuneWorks Inc., a biotechnology company based in Indianapolis. Wilkes’ research specialty is lung-transplant […]
Last week, I made a presentation about social media to several hundred people at a Carmel Chamber of Commerce luncheon. We talked about Facebook and Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, LinkedIn, blogging and more. I didn’t answer the "how-to" question. I answered the "whether-to" question. With some important cautions, my answer was "yes."
With enrollment surging in vocational schools around the country, Indiana Business College has launched an expansion into
Ohio and likely into other states as well. The Indianapolis-based for-profit school also is changing its name.
With enrollment surging in vocational schools around the country, Indiana Business College has launched an expansion into Ohio and likely into other states as well. And the Indianapolis-based for-profit school is changing its name-to Harrison College, with a nod toward two U.S. presidents with Hoosier ties. Executives of the privately owned college informed staff and […]
Last week, I made a presentation about social media to several hundred people at a Carmel Chamber of Commerce luncheon. We talked about Facebook and Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, LinkedIn, blogging and more. I didn’t answer the “how-to” question. I answered the “whether-to” question. With some important cautions, my answer was “yes.” A self-proclaimed “fogey […]
DIRECTORS William E. Baitinger, 73 Occupation: Special assistant to the vice president for research at Purdue University Number of common shares: 146,512 Previous year: 155,412 David W. Crabb, 55 Occupation: Chairman of the Indiana University Department of Medicine Other directorships: Indiana Alcohol Research Center, Polymer Technology Sciences Inc., Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County […]
Indiana and Purdue universities are well-positioned to take advantage of the $11.5 billion available for life sciences and
biotech research from the federal stimulus package.
Indiana is becoming not only a hotbed of “pharmacogenomics” research, but also a trailblazer in finding practical ways to
use it on the practitioner level.
President of the company since 2000, Bridget Shuel-Walker, 42, oversees a distribution operation with $180 million in annual
sales and a work force of more than 400, making it the second-largest woman-owned business in Indianapolis.
With economists predicting the statewide unemployment average will reach 10 percent this year, the experience of a hard-hit
city like Connersville offers a glimpse of what lies ahead for other manufacturing-reliant Hoosier communities.
Prescribe the wrong dose and some drugs won’t work. Or the patient is as good as dead. Consider the rat-poison-turned-blood-thinner warfarin, also known as Coumadin. Too much and a patient can bleed to death, too little and he can throw a clot and have a stroke. Given the considerable consequences of improper dosing for patients-and […]
Taking a sledge hammer to a car might seem like an illogical way to protest a tax hike on tobacco. But it sure feels good, especially to people who are stuck inside the economic pressure cooker that is Connersville. So on April 1, the day a 158-percent increase in the federal cigarette tax took effect, […]
As health care slowly shifts to operate more like retail stores, patients’ opinions of doctors have become commonplace on more than 30 physician-rating Web sites, including a subscription service run by Indianapolis-based Angie’s List.
Tight budgets, unsure future make moving unattractive to office-space renters.
Fully 40 of Indiana’s 92 counties derived more than half of their earnings from commuters bringing back their compensation from somewhere else.
Any administration considering a tax-funded universal health care system that is free at the point of delivery would do well to examine Britain’s National Health Service.
Indianapolis ad firm The Heavyweights and its local client Clarian Health have won one of the ad industry’s biggest awards
for one component of Clarian’s “A Call to Change” campaign.
