When patients get to edit their medical records, they tend to leave out important stuff. That was the conclusion of researchers at the Regenstrief Institute, the Indiana University School of Medicine and Eskenazi Health, after they conducted the first experiment ever in which real patients were allowed to control what parts of their medical records […]
Eli Lilly and Co. wants to combine Novartis with its own animal health business, Elanco, to create the second-largest animal health company in the U.S.
Round 2 of the fight over a nursing home construction ban will commence in January when the Indiana General Assembly convenes for its new session. Sen. Pat Miller, R-Indianapolis, told IBJ she will introduce a bill that would institute a three-year “moratorium” on construction of skilled nursing facilities. The moratorium is widely favored by nursing […]
Eli Lilly and Co. could pay more than $570 million to French pharmaceutical company Adocia under an agreement to develop a fast-acting insulin that is in the early stages of clinical testing.
Infant mortality is improving in Indianapolis and around the state, but is still well above the national average, according to two reports last week. In Marion County, the infant mortality rate fell from a high of 12.9 per thousand births in 2009 to 8.3 per thousand in 2012, according to a Community Health Assessment released […]
Eli Lilly and Co.'s drug Cyramza has been approved as a treatment for lung cancer, regulators said. The Food and Drug Administration is allowing Lilly to market the drug as a treatment for cases that have spread.
While the tests will likely help drug companies like Eli Lilly and Co. evaluate medicines, they’ll also create wrenching personal and ethical dilemmas for patients who will have to live with the knowledge that they’re destined to develop the disease.
The Indianapolis business community, led by Eli Lilly and Co., has already netted more than half of its goal to support the city’s recently approved preschool program to provide low-income families with early-education programs.
A Covance Inc. investor contends in a lawsuit that the drug-testing company’s board erred in relying on what the shareholder called Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s conflict-tainted advice. Covance has major laboratory operations in Indianapolis.
Indianapolis hospital leaders have spent the past two months ironing out a plan to deal with any cases of Ebola that emerge in Indiana. The plan is aimed at ensuring effective care while minimizing the need to bring other hospital services to a virtual halt while patients are under care. Eskenazi Hospital, St. Vincent Indianapolis […]
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's leaders played an upbeat tune Monday, reporting a second-consecutive operating surplus fueled by a 16-percent increase in revenue from ticket sales and a near-record year for fundraising.
Avanir Pharmaceuticals Inc. has reached a The Aliso Viejo, California-based company, which makes a drug to control symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, this week agreed to sell itself to Japan’s Otsuka Holdings Co. for $3.2 billion, or $17 a share. That’s 4 percent lower than analysts’ average projection for where the stock would have traded in […]
William G. Mays, who built one of the nation's largest minority-owned companies and saved one of its oldest African-American newspapers, died Thursday in Indianapolis on his 69th birthday. “Indianapolis has lost a titan of industry and philanthropy,” Mayor Greg Ballard said.
Federal prosecutors dropped all charges against two scientists accused of stealing trade secrets worth $55 million from Eli Lilly and Co. after new information emerged last month, according to a court motion made Friday.
