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Flu fears may not be founded

A new study suggests the H1N1 virus may not be quite as bad as feared. The study, published in the Public Library of Science
Journal, â??PLoS Medicine,â?? says the virus is at worst only slightly more deadly than the average seasonal flu outbreak.
Researchers say only 1 in 70 people showing symptoms needed to be hospitalized. About 1 in 2,000 have died. Public health
officials say vaccination is still the best way to avoid the virus.

Purse snatchers aim for east-side stores

Metro police are investigating several recent purse snatchings near stores on East Washington Street near Washington Square
Mall. Investigators are looking for several people, including one who wore a SpongeBob SquarePants jacket. He recently targeted
a children’s store employee, demanding her purse and the store’s bank deposit. Police say he had a getaway car and driver.
A similar incident was reported minutes later at the Cherry Tree Shopping Center. Now shoppers and store owners say they’re
keeping better watch of their money and their surroundings.

Passions flare around fate of Anderson high schools

Angry parents and students in Anderson are speaking out about the fate of two local high schools as the school district battles
a major budget deficit. Anderson school board officials heard their objections at a meeting Tuesday night regarding two options.
The first would merge Anderson and Highland high schools into one facility, grades 10 to 12. The second option would keep
the two high schools open as grades 7-12 facilities. Most participants who spoke at Tuesdayâ??s meeting favored the latter
option. The board is expected to vote on the issue next week. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.

Company’s medical device earns expedited review

FAST Diagnostics LLC said initial human trials on its method to measure kidney function faster and more accurately than existing
techniques could begin as early as next year, with commercialization following by 2012.

Editorial writers lose appeal against Star

Two former editorial writers at Indiana’s largest newspaper failed to prove they were the victims of religious discrimination,
according to a circuit court of appeals.

Panel sends tax bills to state Senate

Bills aimed at adding caps on property tax bills to the state constitution and delaying increases on unemployment insurance
taxes are now before the full Republican-controlled Senate, weeks before the entire Legislature convenes on Jan. 5.

Ohio manufacturer expanding in northeast Indiana

An Ohio manufacturing company plans to spin off its machining and fabrication operations and set up shop in northeast Indiana,
creating 111 jobs by 2014, state economic development leaders said Tuesday evening.

Auto parts maker to add 130 jobs in Princeton

Automotive component maker Windsor Machine Group will invest more than $4 million to establish a manufacturing facility in
southwest Indiana, eventually creating as many as 130 jobs, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. announced early Wednesday.

This Week in IBJ

Doctor-owned hospitals would be effectively prevented from growing by provisions in the House and Senate health reform bills. That has Indianapolis-based OrthoIndy worried. http://www.ibj.com/reform-feared-by-docs/PARAMS/article/14934

Quick Shots

66 million Americans, or 29 percent of all adults, spend time, on average, 20 hours a week providing care for children with special needs, the elderly or other adults, according to a study commissioned by the National Alliance for Caregiving, AARP and the MetLife Foundation.

People

St. Vincent Foundation named six new directors: Todd Rokita, Indiana secretary of state; John Marshall, midwest development director at BremnerDuke Healthcare Real Estate; Todd Maurer, principal at Halakar Properties Inc.; Jim Powers, a managing executive at Crowe Horwath LLP; Mary Clare Broadbent, a community activist who sits on numerous not-for-profit boards; and Roberta Walton.

Dr. Sheila Stewart-Whack was promoted to medical director of the pediatric clinic at the St. Vincent Joshua Max Simon Primary Care Center.

Dr. John Palmer Snook has joined Franklin Township Family Medicine and the St. Francis Medical Group. He was staff president at Schneck Medical Center in Seymour.

Company news

Pierceton-based Paragon Medical plans to invest in a bio-skills campus in the Warsaw area. The northern Indiana supplier of surgical instruments said the lab would support the OrthoWorx project recently launched by Indianapolis-based BioCrossroads to help the Warsaw orthopedics industry transition to biology-based products that could render the sector’s current products obsolete.

Orthopedics implant makers have seen their business embraced more by Wall Street lately. Warsaw-based Zimmer Holdings Inc. has watched its share price rise about 20 percent in the past three months. Its competitors, such as Michigan-based Stryker Corp., have also experienced nice gains. Paul Nolte, managing director at Dearborn Partners, told MarketWatch, "It’s been a slow progression as investors realized that even with "ObamaCare," people are still going to want to have knee replacements.”

The impact of health reform on innovation will be the topic at the next Life Sciences Lunch at the downtown offices of Indianapolis law firm Barnes & Thornburgh LLP. Allison Giles, vice president of federal affairs at Cook Group Inc., will speak. Bloomington-based Cook is among the medical-device firms that have complained loudly that a tax on medical-device companies’ revenue would force companies to cut jobs and slow down on innovation. Additional speakers have yet to be named. The lunch is scheduled for Dec. 15 at 11: 30 a.m.

Ramping up neuroscience R&D

NICO Corp., Clarian Health Ventures organize event to get neurosurgeons, inventors, investors talking about commercializing
new products

Republic Airways bringing 300 jobs to city

Republic Airways Holdings Inc. said Tuesday afternoon it will create as many as 300 jobs in Indianapolis next year by bringing
Frontier Airlines’ Operation Control Center to the city.

Q&A

Dhan Shapurji, an Indianapolis-based health care consultant for Deloitte, advises hospitals, health insurers and others on how to meet looming challenges and opportunities in the health care industry. He discussed the potential impact of health reform bills pending in Congress.