BREAKING: FDA approves Lilly blood-thinner prasugrel
Eli Lilly and Co. finally won approval today from U.S. regulators to sell prasugrel, its highly anticipated blood thinner,
according to Bloomberg News.
Eli Lilly and Co. finally won approval today from U.S. regulators to sell prasugrel, its highly anticipated blood thinner,
according to Bloomberg News.
Eli Lilly and Co. finally won approval today from U.S. regulators to sell prasugrel, its highly anticipated blood thinner, according to Bloomberg News. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved prasugrel to prevent blood clots when patients come in to receive stents or other coronary devices. The drug will have the trade name Effient. After […]
The cross-continent mega deal that made Brightpoint Inc. the world’s biggest wireless phone distributor
has lost much of its sheen two years after being struck. Brightpoint Inc. in August 2007 purchased Denmark-based
Dangaard Telecom for $385 million in stock and the assumption of $350 million in Dangaard debt.
Drugmakers Eli Lilly and Co., Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Alkermes Inc. said yesterday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
has accepted their application for the once-a-week diabetes drug exenatide.
Drugmakers Eli Lilly and Co., Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Alkermes Inc. said yesterday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted their application for the once-a-week diabetes drug exenatide. Exenatide is the primary ingredient of Byetta, a treatment for type 2 diabetes. While Byetta is injected twice a day, the newer drug is intended […]
Health care reform is making for odd bedfellows. The pharmaceutical industry – which for two decades has given twice as much in campaign donations to Republicans as Democrats – organized a panel composed mostly of Democrats on Tuesday in Indianapolis to argue its position on health care reform. Former Democratic House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt […]
Eli Lilly and Co.’s top rising-star drug has been approved by U.S. regulators for a new use, an event that could boost sales of
the medication. Alimta, a lung cancer drug, was approved as a maintenance therapy for non-small cell lung cancer
for certain patients, Lilly announced today.
Eli Lilly and Co.’s top rising-star drug has been OK’d by U.S. regulators for a new use, an event that could boost sales of the medication. Alimta, a lung cancer drug, was approved as a maintenance therapy for non-small cell lung cancer for certain patients, Lilly announced today. The approval by the U.S. Food and […]
Once again, Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. is running in the lead pack in dollars spent to bend ears on Capitol Hill. And that was even before the health care reform debate got rolling.
The Indiana Minority Supplier Development Council has made life sciences companies its latest target—part of an even larger effort to attract minorities to the burgeoning life sciences industry under
way on a national scale.
As one of the city’s most prominent minority business owners, Bill Mays built his chemical distributorship largely on the backs of domestic automakers. In 1980,when he founded Mays Chemical Co. Inc., the Big Three accounted for nearly 75 percent of all new-car sales. But that number has dwindled to less than half of all new […]
Once again Eli Lilly and Co. is running in the lead pack in dollars spent to bend ears on Capitol Hill. And that was even before the health care reform debate got rolling. Through the first quarter, the Indianapolis-based drugmaker was on pace to break the record amount of lobbying it did last year, when it […]
Lawmakers must take action but also ensure that any plan incorporates four basic principles.
A new communications post at Eli Lilly gives former mayor Bart Peterson an opportunity to meld his experiences in the public
and private sectors.
After decades of talk about health care reform, the country seems poised to take a major step in that direction. Various bills are being filed in Congress, and President Obama has said he wants legislation on his desk by November. The momentum that’s building is driven not just by the president but by the growing […]
Former Mayor Bart Peterson outlines the pitch Eli Lilly will make in D.C. For the first time in 15 years, lawmakers in Washington have plunged into a debate about overhauling the nation’s health care system. New proposals come out every week, with bills filed in Congress running longer than 600 pages and 10-year cost estimates […]
The past decade has often been rough for Eli Lilly and Co., but a new economic impact study commissioned by the company suggests the drugmaker’s contribution to the state’s economy actually has increased over that time. The study by Indiana University professor Bruce Jaffee calculates that Lilly accounts for $8 billion, or 3.3 percent, of […]
Indianapolis has always had Eli Lilly and Co., it seems, and Lilly always seems to care for Indianapolis
like a rich uncle.
People employed directly by Lilly and by companies doing business with Lilly account for about one of every
30…
The past decade has often been rough for Eli Lilly and Co., but a new economic impact study commissioned by the company suggests the drugmaker’s contribution to the state’s economy has actually increased over that time. The new study by an Indiana University professor calculates that Lilly accounts for $8 billion, or 3.3 percent, of […]
President Barack Obama today welcomed the pharmaceutical industry’s agreement to help close a gap in Medicare’s drug coverage, calling the pact a step forward in the push for an overhaul of the nation’s health care system. Obama said that drug companies have pledged to spend $80 billion over the next decade to help reduce the […]