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Lawmakers have full agenda for 2011 session

Indiana lawmakers are returning to the Statehouse Wednesday to begin the 2011 legislative session, which will be dominated by budget, education, redistricting and other issues.

Lilly bumped up federal lobbying in third quarter

The Indianapolis-based drugmaker spent $2.1 million in the three months that ended Sept. 30, a 5-percent increase from the same quarter last year and a jump of more than 30 percent from the $1.6 million it spent in this year's second quarter.

New doc lifts Community breast biz

Community Health Network wooed Dr. Robert J. Goulet Jr. to join its breast-surgery team from the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center. The move fits nicely with Community’s focus on breast-care services and the economics of health care.

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Dr. Gaylen M. Kelton has been named the first program director of the new Indiana University Master of Physician Assistant Studies program in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at IUPUI. For the past 14 years, Kelton has been a professor of family medicine at the IU School of Medicine.

Cook Inc. has promoted Rusty Burns to be vice president of global logistics and purchasing. Burns will manage the Bloomington-based company’s warehousing, distribution and materials management. Burns has worked for Cook since 1979.

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Two St. Vincent Health hospitals—Saint John’s Health System and St. Vincent Jennings Hospital—have started using the DOCS4DOCS service provided by the Indiana Health Information Exchange.  DOCS4DOCS centralizes in electronic format all the lab results, radiology reports, transcriptions, pathology and hospital admissions reports, discharge and transfer reports from all participating Indiana hospitals, physician practices, labs and radiology centers. The service, which swaps more than 6 million messages each month, is paid for by hospitals and laboratories but provided free of charge to physicians. The exchange, based in Indianapolis, now has more than 80 hospitals and 19,000 physicians participating in its medical-record-sharing services.

Marcadia Biotech Inc., a Carmel-based biopharmaceutical company founded by former Eli Lilly and Co. executives, has been acquired by Swiss life sciences giant Roche. Some details of the transaction will be disclosed in February. Roche’s holdings include Roche Diagnostics, which employs more than 3,000 in Indianapolis at its North American headquarters. Marcadia has about a dozen employees at its 11711 N. Meridian St. headquarters, who have so far been sustained by the millions of dollars Marcadia has raised in venture capital and its partnerships with large drug companies.. Marcadia has been focusing on drugs to treat metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. It previously partnered with drug giant New Jersey-based Merck & Co. Inc. and with Indianapolis-based Lilly. Last June, Marcadia and Lilly struck a deal to develop short-acting glucagon drugs to treat severe hypoglycemia. Roche’s big hope for a new diabetes drug, taspoglutide, had its clinical trials suspended in September due to severe digestive-tract side effects.
 

Latest iPhone app: Baby EKG

Mobile medicine has arrived. Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg became the first hospital in Indiana to start using AirStrip OB, a patient-monitoring system that sends things like the heartbeat waves of patients directly to physicians’ iPhones, BlackBerrys or other mobile devices.

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Brightpoint expansion includes three buildings

The distributor of wireless devices has completed its purchase of a 533,000-square-foot facility in the AllPoints Midwest business park in Plainfield and is leasing a 200,000 square-foot building, also in Plainfield.

Another fire hits apartment complex

Nottingham Village Apartment Complex, on the east side near 21st Street and Post Road, was hit by fire Tuesday morning—its fifth fire since April, according to the Indianapolis Fire Department. This time, a large storage building caught on fire, causing about $150,000 in damage. The apartment complex also suffered two fires in the spring and two more in September. One of the September fires, which killed a mother and her 2-year-old son, was ruled an arson.
 

‘Drag queens’ rob man on east side

A man told Indianapolis police he was beaten and robbed by two men dressed as “drag queens” early Tuesday morning. The victim said he had just received $700 in cash from a check-cashing store in the 3800 block of East Washington Street, when he was hit in the head with a claw hammer while walking home and robbed. Investigators believe the two men were watching their victim as he entered the check-cashing store. An employee said the two had been in the store earlier that morning. One of the suspects was wearing a red plaid coat. The other had braided red hair.
 

Beech Grove mayor resigns

Donald “Joe” Wright shocked city council members when he announced his resignation  as mayor of Beech Grove on Monday night. Wright, who has a year left on his term, told the council that he wants to devote more time to his business. He is chief operations officer for Indianapolis-based Novia CareClinics LLC. His resignation takes effect Jan. 17. Councilor John Jennings will serve as acting mayor until a successor is named. Beech Grove is a city of about 15,000 people in southeast Marion County.