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Ethics changes debated by lawmakers

A state House of Representatives committee on Wednesday will take up an ethics reform package by Democratic House Speaker
Patrick Bauer that could change the rulebook for lobbyists. A provision would force lawmakers to wait one year after leaving
office to begin work as a paid lobbyist. State Republicans are preparing similar legislation.

Anderson board votes to close schools

The Anderson school board voted 5-2 on Tuesday night to close a high school and four elementary schools, citing a multimillion-dollar
budget shortfall. Next month, the board will have to decide whether Anderson High School or Highland High School will be shut
down. That decision will mean layoffs for teachers and staff.

Single-car crash on I-465 kills driver

A man was killed Wednesday morning in a car crash on southbound Interstate 465 on the northwest side of Indianapolis. A Boone
County police officer, who discovered the wreck just south of Interstate 865, said the vehicle split in half after skidding
into a ditch and hitting a tree. The unidentified victim was ejected. Police are investigating the cause of the accident.
Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.

Housing construction jumps

The Commerce Department said Wednesday morning that construction of new homes and apartments rose 8.9 percent in November.

Cummins engine business president stepping down

Engine maker Cummins Inc. said the head of its engine business is leaving his role in March to pursue other projects at
the company. Jim Kelly joined the company in 1976 and was promoted to president of the engine business in
2005.

Senate rejects drug-importation proposal

The U.S. Senate voted down a plan Tuesday to allow Americans to import prescriptions from abroad, handing drug makers
such as Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. a victory.

Big Ten Conference ready to explore expansion

According to a statement released Tuesday afternoon, the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors “believes that the timing
is right for the conference to once again conduct a thorough evaluation of options for conference structure and expansion.”

Company news

Carmel-based Dormir Inc. acquired a string of sleep-study centers and equipment stores in California,
Oregon and Utah, making it the nation’s second-largest provider of sleep-diagnostic services in the country behind SleepMed
Inc., headquartered in Columbia, S.C. The sleep centers and equipment stores were part of two subsidiaries of Australia-based
Avastra Sleep Centres Ltd. They give Dormir 85 locations in 16 states. Financial terms of the deal were
not disclosed.

Eli Lilly and Co. said it won approval for a new long-acting
version of its bestselling antipsychotic Zyprexa. The new version has patents that could extend until
2018. Investors have shunned Lilly’s stock this year because they say Indianapolis-based Lilly does not have enough new
drugs to offset the loss of Zyprexa revenue that will occur after the drug loses its patents in 2011. Lilly issued a forecast
for 2012-2014 that suggested its profits could fall by as much as one-third from their present levels.

Lilly
Endowment Inc. will give $60 million to the Indiana University School of Medicine
to implement its new Indiana Physician Scientist Initiative that aims to turn discoveries that could
improve human health into products and treatments that benefit patients and produce new businesses. Dr. David Wilkes,
executive associate dean for research affairs at the IU School of Medicine, will direct the Indiana Physician Scientist Initiative.
Its biggest goal is to recruit 20 physician-scientists to the IU med school to focus on cancer, neurosciences and diabetes/vascular
disease.

Scientists have made chemotherapy drugs better at reducing side effects by engineering them to bind only
to cancerous cells. But researchers at Purdue University are taking an entirely different approach. They
used cold and magnetic particles to create nanorods—about 1,000 times smaller than a human hair. They then coated these
rods with the breast cancer drug Herceptin and inserted them into breast tumors. Professor Joseph Irudayaraj and graduate
student Jiji Chen wrote about their work in the journal ACS Nano.

The Eli Lilly and Co. Foundation
gave $1 million to Indiana University to form a school of public health at IUPUI. Indiana University will
build the school using faculty from its medical school and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Two Fort Wayne consulting firms are joining forces in an attempt to do more work for financially
strapped doctors and hospitals. MedOptima and Ruffolo Benson LLC now
offer expertise in improving billing and other processes, as well as finding capital.

In the
latest combination of fitness and physicians, St. Vincent Health has opened
a rehab therapy clinic at the Fishers YMCA. The 3,900-square-foot clinic will offer
orthopedic, neurological and general rehab care. The first local example of such a partnership is the Westview Healthplex
Sports Club on Guion Road operated by Westview Hospital. Also, Hendricks Regional Health
is working with YMCA to build a joint facility in Avon.

People

B&D Consulting, a Washington-based lobbying arm of Indianapolis law firm Baker & Daniels LLP, acquired the consulting
practice of Dr. Tim Franson, who will now lead the B&D Consulting regulatory affairs
practice.

Richard Helsper became chief operating officer at Muncie-based
Ball Memorial Hospital, a subsidiary of Clarian Health, on Dec. 1. Helsper joined Clarian in 2003 and
has worked to improve operations at the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute in Bloomington, Clarian
Arnett Hospital in Lafayette and at Ball Memorial.

Senate bucks public opinion

Polls show public likes proposed Medicare expansion and public option, but does not like overall Senate bill.