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The Indiana University School of Medicine has received $1.25 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand a partnership with Purdue University to train physician-scientists. The grant is one of 40 given nationally by the NIH. The IU-Purdue program leads to both a medical doctorate and a Ph.D. degree. IU accepts only five students […]

St. Vincent Indianapolis and Women’s hospitals have received a $1.4 million gift from the estate of a surgeon who practiced at the hospital for decades. Dr. Robert F. Nagan’s gift is the largest ever by a physician to the hospital. About $375,000 went toward a new continuing care nursery at St. Vincent Women’s Hospital. The […]

Deaconess Health System in Evansville has bought most of the assets of Welborn Clinic, also based in the southern Indiana city, to form one of the largest doctor groups in Indiana, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. The merged group will be called Deaconess Clinic, and will have more than 80 doctors, 500 employees […]

Enough evidence of fraud by Eli Lilly and Co. in its marketing of Zyprexa exists to go ahead with a jury trial, a judge in New York has ruled. Plaintiffs in the case claim Lilly urged physicians to prescribe the schizophrenia and bipolar disorder drug for uses not approved by the federal government. Insurance companies, […]