Aearo Technologies didn’t fulfill its job-creation promises under a 2007 tax abatement agreement with the city of Indianapolis, but it did spend nearly $16 million on buildings and equipment.
Katelyn Becht, a nurse practitioner, has joined St. Vincent Medical Group in Carmel. Becht received a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and a master’s degree in nursing administration from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion.
Dr. Andrew Miller has joined Eskenazi Health Midtown Community Mental Health as a child and adolescent psychiatrist. He earned his medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine. He received a bachelor's degree in biology from IU-Bloomington.
Dr. Peter Hogg, an orthopedic surgeon, has joined Franciscan Physician Network Orthopedic Specialists. He earned his medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine and a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from DePauw University.
Andrea Pfeifle, a physical therapist, has been named the first assistant dean and director of the Indiana University Center for Interprofessional Health Education and Practice. The center was created to prepare future health care providers to deliver team-based care. Pfeifle comes to IU from the University of Kentucky, where she held a similar position. She earned a doctorate in education from the University of Kentucky.
In spite of the beaucoup bucks in the pharma sector, patients, along with their families and committed advocates, are turning out to be better sources of funding for early stage companies because they tolerate risk better than drug companies and investors.
Environmental, health and neighborhood groups are calling on the Marion County Health Department to compel Indianapolis Power & Light to test groundwater at eight coal ash lagoons on the city's south side.
Determining governmental and tax structures is a major responsibility of state government. But, as we proceed into the 21st century, it is important to note that the size, density and distribution of our population have changed over the last 1-1/2 centuries.
Indianapolis' electricity utility plans to convert its aging Harding Street power plant entirely to natural gas by 2016, after facing growing pressure to do so from environmental groups and politicians.
Environmental groups are proposing a system of trails to promote use of the White River in central Indiana rather than damming it for a proposed $450 million, seven-mile-long reservoir.
The drug company said Thursday its drug ixekizumab cleared away skin inflammation in six times as many patients as the blockbuster drug Enbrel. Lilly is in a race to bring the first in a new-class of psoriasis treatments to market.
The City Line Trolley bus service has seen its passenger totals increase 31 percent since it added three new lines and expanded the number of stops from 118 to 275 last summer.
U.S. Sen. Dan Coats said planners of a proposed central Indiana reservoir shouldn't look to the federal government for help in financing the $450 million project.
Ohio-based Cardinal Health Inc. wants to open a $14.4 million drug-production facility that would employ 85 workers by 2017. A Cardinal subsidiary, Cardinal Health 414 LLC, produces a cancer treatment locally at a compounding center on Georgetown Road. The Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development said Cardinal wants to expand production of the medication by opening a second facility in an existing 64,000-square-foot warehouse at 4343 W. 62nd St. If the project goes forward locally, the company said it would spend $11.5 million to make the building suitable for pharmaceutical production and another $2.9 million in manufacturing and research equipment for the facility. Cardinal wants a tax abatement valued at $690,297 over 10 years. During that time, the company still would pay $648,169 in property taxes.
Consolidated Insurance Services Inc. has merged with Shepherd Insurance, creating an insurance agency with eight Indiana offices, 145 agents and more than 160 employees. Consolidated will now operate as Consolidated Shepherd Insurance, while Shepherd will maintain its name. Shepherd is based in Carmel and has offices in Noblesville, Greenfield, Columbus, Evansville and Seymour. The agency, which in recent years has bulked up its presence in health insurance, was founded in 1977 by Dave Shepherd, who won Indiana's Mr. Basketball award in 1970 while at Carmel High School. Consolidated, founded in 1932, is led by Rex Early, the former Republican state chairman and gubernatorial candidate.
Eli Lilly and Co. and a partner drugmaker won tentative regulatory approval for a once-a-day insulin that will compete with Lantus, the blockbuster insulin made by France-based Sanofi SA. Called Basaglar, the drug is approved for adults with type 2 diabetes and in combination with mealtime insulin for adults and children with type 1 diabetes. Lilly co-developed the drug with Germany-based Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH. The approval is tentative because of a claim of patent infringement filed by Sanofi. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cannot give final approval of Basaglar until mid-2016, unless courts find in favor of Lilly earlier.
Eli Lilly and Co. will submit its experimental psoriasis drug for regulatory approval after the medicine helped six times as many patients participating in clinical trials completely clear up their skin irritations as an existing treatment. Lilly’s drug, ixekizumab, is in a race with two others to be first in a new class of psoriasis treatments to reach the market. Lilly expects to submit the drug to regulators—most likely in the United States, Europe and Japan—in the first half of 2015. The commercial prospects for ixekizumab are uncertain. Before Thursday’s announcements, Wall Street analysts expected the drug to fall short of $1 billion in annual sales by 2020. Switzerland-based Novartis AG already has submitted its drug for psoriasis to the FDA, and expects a decision as early as year’s end. California-based Amgen Inc. has partnered with United Kingdom-based Astra Zeneca plc on a new drug for psoriasis, but they have yet to complete late-stage testing.
Chief operating officer Jim Isch announced he would retire early next year, a move that is prompting NCAA President Mark Emmert to reorganize his top staff.
Indiana has 58 percent more nursing homes per resident and spends an extra $1 billion per year on care in nursing homes than the average for the rest of the country.
Indiana has branded itself as the Crossroads of America. We take pride in being an automotive and industrial state. You’d think we’d embrace the idea of rest stops that welcome visitors and celebrate the car culture.
United Way spent nine months putting together The New U—a strategic shift intended to speed change by investing in programs that make a measurable difference in the areas of education, income, health and basic needs.
Conservatives, after waging war on Obamacare, including its large expansion of Medicaid, are starting to try to propose alternative, conservative ways to achieve its key goals.
-Reynolds Construction Group Inc. is scheduled to start a 7,200-square-foot interior renovation for Cornerstone Environmental Health and Safety at 880 Lennox Court, Zionsville.
-Mattingly Construction has completed construction of a 1,809-square-foot build-out for PROFYLE Boutique at Ironworks, 2727 E. 86th St., No. 125.
-Mattingly Construction has started construction of a 3,921-square-foot building for Martin Dentistry at 1724 Broad Ripple Ave.
-Mattingly Construction has completed a 1,200-square-foot build-out for Heritage Christian High School commons area at 6401 E. 75th St.
This year’s goal for the Midwest U.S-Japan Association is to find opportunities for the Midwest’s environmental, health and wellness sectors as the population of Japan and the U.S. states age.
