After struggling for more than 20 years to develop cancer drugs without success, West Lafayette-based Endocyte Inc. is pausing it own R&D efforts to concentrate on a potential blockbuster drug from a German chemical company.
Five hundred medical students from IU have received training in Kenya, and lessons learned from the program have been applied back here in the United States.
Hoosiers buying health insurance on the Obamacare marketplace will pay an average of nearly $500 a month in premiums next year, a sharp rise over current rates.
The new “clarifying guidance” from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could provide a big challenge to new micro hospitals popping up in central Indiana and nationally.
li Lilly and Co.’s experimental breast cancer drug abemaciclib, when combined with standard therapy, slowed the progression of tumors in patients with an advanced form of the disease.
Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk says it has reached a settlement over allegations that it hadn’t properly communicated safety information when marketing a medicine to treat type 2 diabetes.
Naomi Pescovitz, a North Central High School graduate, will help to launch a 7 p.m. newscast at KMSP-Fox 9, which she said will “give me my weekends back and I’ll be able to turn off that 1:30 a.m. alarm clock.”
Over the past 20 years, while the price of a gallon of milk climbed 23 percent and the sticker on a Dodge Caravan minivan rose 21 percent, the list price of the insulin Humalog shot up 1,157 percent.
In response to an employee survey two years ago that revealed shockingly low morale, IU Health executives respond with 33 town hall meetings over four months.
The design features plenty of glass and natural light, along with Indiana limestone and brick highlights. The facility, scheduled to open in 2020, will replace an aging hospital about five miles away.
Whether so-called micro-hospitals can succeed financially might depend on whether they can meet Medicare’s definition of a hospital: a medical facility that dedicates the bulk of its services to inpatient care.
