Potential Alzheimer’s drug fails first of four key trials
Bapineuzumab is in a race with a similar product from Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. to become the first therapy to target a cause for Alzheimer’s, rather than just its symptoms.
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Bapineuzumab is in a race with a similar product from Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. to become the first therapy to target a cause for Alzheimer’s, rather than just its symptoms.
Automobile parts supplier Greenville Technology Inc. plans to open a $21.4 million plant in Anderson, creating 325 jobs by 2016, economic development officials announced Tuesday morning.
Tony-winning play makes ‘God of Carnage’ look like children’s theater.
The Indianapolis-based mall giant is benefitting from robust demand for space from retailers in the United States. It's also ratcheting up growth by investing overseas.
Simon said it expects to report net income between $4.34 and $4.44 per share for the period ending Dec. 31, 2012, and funds from operations of $7.60 to $7.70. In its earning report, the company also noted that it paid the retailer J.C. Penney about $248 million to redeem the chain's partnership stake […]
The ongoing drought is taking its toll on Indiana livestock farmers as they liquidate their inventories.
Figures from Cassidy Turley showed the suburban market growing by 247,000 square feet while downtown contracted by 68,000 square feet in the first half of the year.
J.C. Penney Co. said Monday that it is selling the bulk of its interest in mall developer Simon Property Group Inc. for $248 million as it focuses on its core business.
Community Health Network’s Hook Rehabilitation Center hired psychologist Jennifer Wethe. She comes to Community from St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, where she was associate director of the Children’s Center for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. Wethe holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology from Purdue University.
Community Physician Network named Steve Jarosinski to the new position of chief specialty care executive. Jarosinski comes to Community from Johnson Memorial Hospital, where he most recently served as vice president of physician practices. Jarosinski has a bachelor’s in physical therapy and an MBA from Indiana University.
Dr. Mohammed Tarrabain has established a practice with St. Francis Medical Group. He most recently worked in the family medicine department at American University in Beirut, Lebanon. Tarrabain also earned his bachelor’s and medical degrees at American University in Beirut.
Only 1 percent of the jobs given to Texas-based Merritt Hawkins over the past year were for solo practitioners, the physician recruiting firm reported this month. That’s down from 22 percent of all searches in 2004.
A troubled central Indiana nuclear medicine company said it plans to build a $65 million plant in Gary that would employ up to 50 people within five years, dropping plans to build a smaller facility in Noblesville. Fishers-based Positron Corp. will make radioactive medical imaging isotopes at the new plant, which will be equipped with a 70-million-electron-volt cyclotron, it said in a news release issued Friday. Cyclotrons are molecular particle accelerators that can be used to produce isotopes that can help physicians spot medical anomalies in the human body. The Gary plant will boast the nation's most powerful commercial cyclotron, the company said. Gary has approved $15 million in tax increment financing bonds for Positron and is helping the company land New Market Tax Credits worth another $15 million, Positron said. That's more than the incentives offered last year when the company said it planned to move its operations to Noblesville and build a $55 million cyclotron there, creating 86 jobs. Positron has lost tens of millions of dollars in recent years, and the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission last year accused CEO Patrick G. Rooney of defrauding investors in a hedge fund he operates. The company has racked up more than $110 million in losses since its founding in 1983. Its accounting firm issued a "going concern" warning about Positron in 2010, raising doubt about its ability to remain in business in the long term.
Franciscan St. Francis Health will open an Immediate Care facility on Aug. 1 in the Village Park Plaza strip mall on the edges of Carmel and Westfield. The facility will operate from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day, with four physicians seeing patients without appointments. Immediate Care, which Franciscan acquired in 2010, operates four other clinics around the Indianapolis area. The newest clinic will complement Franciscan’s new short-stay hospital in Carmel, which is about two miles south of the Immediate Care clinic. The new short-stay hospital offers imaging, surgery and laboratory, and includes six inpatient beds.
Westfield-based MaxIT Healthcare Holdings Inc. has agreed to sell itself for $473 million to Virginia-based Science Applications International Corp., the companies announced July 17. MaxIT’s 1,300 employees provide information technology services to hospitals and physician practices throughout the United States and Canada. Only about 75 of MaxIT’s employees are in Westfield. The company is riding a wave of hospitals’ and medical offices’ switching or adding computer systems to better track patient records, CEO Mike Sweeney told IBJ earlier this year. MaxIT saw revenue shoot up 63 percent in 2011, to $179.4 million. The acquisition is expected to close next month. MaxIT was founded in 2001 by Parker Hinshaw. Healthcare Informatics, a trade journal, ranked MaxIT the 41st-largest health IT firm in the nation in 2011, based on revenue. SAIC ranked No. 18 in the nation, with revenue from health IT businesses topping $554 million. SAIC also performs a variety of secret work for the U.S. departments of defense, homeland security and the U.S. intelligence community.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said July 17 he plans to consult his potential successors before he decides whether the state should set up a health care exchange, according to the Associated Press. States have until Nov. 16 to submit a plan to the federal government for a health exchange. Daniels said he does not want to make a decision that binds the state's next governor without consulting the candidates. "I don't consider it right for me or my administration to make such a decision that the next administration then has to implement. So I'm going to have to find some way to get input from the next governor," the Republican governor said. Libertarian Rupert Boneham, Democrat John Gregg and Republican Mike Pence are running for governor. Daniels is barred by law from seeking a third term. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that the part of the federal law enabling health insurance exchanges is constitutional. States can choose to create their own exchange or have residents seek insurance via a federal exchange. The court also ruled that states cannot be forced to expand Medicaid coverage. Spokespeople for the Gregg and Pence campaigns said they look forward to working with Daniels.
For the first time, Indiana University Health in Indianapolis has been named to U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals Honor Roll," a distinction that goes to the top medical centers in the country. Hospitals on the list, announced July 17, must show high expertise across multiple specialties, scoring at or near the top in at least six of 16 ranked specialties. IU Health was ranked No. 16 out of 17 hospitals on the Honor Roll. Eleven of its clinical specialties were ranked among the top 50 in the nation: cancer; diabetes; gastroenterology; nephrology; orthopedics; urology; cardiology; ear, nose and throat; geriatrics; neurosurgery; and pulmonology. The hospital's top specialty ranking came in urology, at No. 8 in the nation. U.S. News said it surveyed nearly 10,000 specialists and analyzed data for almost 5,000 hospitals to compile its rankings. Massachusetts General Hospital was ranked No. 1 in the nation for the first time, displacing Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore.
Lawrence police have found Larry Hodge after issuing a “Silver Alert” for the 61-year-old man early Monday morning. Hodge was reported missing after last being seen at 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
A man was taken to the hospital in critical condition early Monday after a shooting at a west-side bar. Indianapolis police were dispatched to the Cloud Nine nightclub at 5010 W. 38th St. at 2:40 a.m. after a report of a large fight and an injured person. They found the gunshot victim, a male in his early 20s, outside the club. Police are interviewing witnesses.
Indiana Black Expo’s Summer Celebration wrapped up its 11-day run Sunday without any major crime incidents for the second year in a row. About 600 police officers took to downtown’s streets to ensure safety during the event, which draws more than 200,000 attendees annually. Ten teenagers were injured by gunshots at the event two years ago, prompting tighter security.
A little extra Medicare money will flow to suburban hospitals in the Indianapolis area, based on recent patient satisfaction scores. But hospitals in the core of Indianapolis—and hospitals that do significant amounts of teaching medical students—may take a hit.
Under the five-year deal, Nike will maintain its status as the official outfitter of all student athletes on the 16 varsity sports teams at IUPU. The initial deal was signed in October 2009. Terms of the current agreement were not disclosed.
Private Indiana schools that accepted students from low- to middle-income families using state-funded vouchers last year experienced a small drop in their passing rates on the state's ISTEP test this year, a newspaper's analysis of test scores shows.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s swift and severe punishment of Penn State University over a sexual abuse scandal is a bold departure from its normal operating procedure.
Ball State University's trustees have approved plans for a $4.6 million planetarium that school officials say will become the largest in Indiana.