2022 Health Care Heroes: Director led city’s pandemic response
Monica Heltz is the public health director for the city of Fishers, which launched its own public health department during the pandemic.
Monica Heltz is the public health director for the city of Fishers, which launched its own public health department during the pandemic.
Scott Janke treats veterans who have entered the Indianapolis Veterans Treatment Court, which provides help to veterans involved in the criminal justice system who are dealing with addiction, mental illnesses and injuries.
Sally Freeman greets surgical services patients, takes them to the pre-op area, directs families to post-op after their loved one is out of surgery, and helps keep the waiting rooms neat and tidy.
Tough love, if administered with true ‘love,’ is often the best way to deliver advice that might (or might not) take root.
Months of spot shortages at pharmacies and supermarkets have been exacerbated by the recall at Abbott, which was forced to close its largest U.S. formula manufacturing plant in February due to contamination concerns.
A divorced Indiana couple who shared sexually explicit photos and videos of children with former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle were sentenced Monday.
It should come as no surprise that pandemic-related supply chain challenges have also had a major impact on the life sciences industry.
The pharmaceutical giant is turning heads with an experimental medicine it claims can help obese patients shed nearly a quarter of their body weight and manage diabetes.
In a new policy announced Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics said it is putting all its guidance under the microscope to eliminate “race-based” medicine and resulting health disparities.
Two-and-a-half years after it first spilled into humans, the COVID virus has repeatedly changed its structure and chemistry in ways that confound efforts to bring it fully under control.
As more teams continue to work remotely, we must find new leadership methods that can ensure productivity without relying on visibility without context.
Sustainably addressing the problems of rising prices and declining quality requires reforms that empower patients and doctors, improve price transparency and eliminate the perverse incentives of our current health insurance system that drive up costs and limit care.
The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.
David Ricks called on government for help fix Indiana’s business climate. I think we will have to do more—a lot more. State government simply lacks the technological sophistication, budgetary discipline and political consensus to do enough.
Government and policymakers have a large role to play in addressing the state’s economic challenges. But they can’t do it alone. Nor should we expect them to.
Andrea Hunley, 38, is hoping to beat out four opponents in the Democratic primary to win a chance to represent a newly-created Indianapolis district covering the attendance area of her current and former schools.
Community Health Network said the new arrangement with the largest cancer center in the United States will give Hoosiers access to some of the most advanced cancer treatments in the nation.
The drug, called tirzepatide, has been closely watched by medical professionals and is viewed by financial analysts as possible blockbuster, with potential annual sales in the billions of dollars.
COVID-19 vaccinations are at a critical juncture as companies test whether new approaches like combination shots or nasal drops can keep up with a mutating coronavirus—even though it’s not clear if changes are needed.
Now, at a time when businesses will do just about anything to recruit and retain workers, fertility benefits have gone from novelty to a must-have for many companies.