Sans wig, sans period costumes, sans impersonation, Irwin found the beauty in Joplin’s not-pretty styling, filtering it through her own persona and sensibilities. What emerged was a show celebrating two artists
Hotel business is booming in Hamilton County, with mid-year occupancy up 9 percent from the first half of 2013. Open since March, Westfield’s massive Grand Park Sports Campus has thrown its weight behind the surge.
A Carmel church is asking a Clay Township utility to withdraw its offer to buy part of the church's land for a sewer-overflow tank so that church officials can conduct research and meet with neighbors for input.
Results of a Roche clinical trial mirror those produced by an experimental Lilly drug two years ago. Lilly executives say that validates their approach in the multi-billion-dollar race to market the first drug to reverse Alzheimer’s.
The Indiana University School of Medicine plans to hire 100 research professors over the next five years in a bid to vault into the top 25 medical schools. If successful, that recruitment drive could boost by 15 percent the number of research-oriented faculty at IU and bring in an extra $35 million to $40 million in annual research funding. If the plan plays out as Dean Dr. Jay L. Hess hopes, the school could become a closer partner with drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co., medical-device maker Cook Group Inc. and other major life sciences companies. Hess’ plans are actually a bit more modest than those advanced by his predecessor, Dr. Craig Brater, who retired last year. Brater wanted IU to become one of the 10 most richly funded medical schools for research, up from about 40th now. To get there, he estimated, the school needed to recruit 400 researchers, on top of the 700 it employs today. But Hess noted that IU would need hundreds of millions of dollars more per year in funding from the National Institutes of Health—IU receives about $100 million per year—to reach that level.
Four doctors who supposedly ran a system of clinics aimed at helping addicts kick painkillers were illegally selling a drug that's supposed to aid in rehabilitation, federal authorities said Friday after raiding the doctors’ clinics in Carmel, Noblesville, Muncie, Kokomo and Centerville. According to the Associated Press, Dr. Larry Ley, 68, of Noblesville, was being held on $1 million bond on drug-dealing charges in Hamilton County Jail. Prosecutors say Ley led the operation. A dozen additional suspects, including three other doctors, are under arrest or sought by police. The probable cause affidavit said patients would go to clinics operated by organizations called the Drug and Opiate Recovery Network or Living Life Clean and pay cash for prescriptions of Suboxone, a drug that can be used to treat addictions to opioid painkillers or heroin. The clinics did not accept insurance. Patients allegedly did not undergo medical or mental exams, and weren't asked to provide medical histories. Office employees allegedly handed out pre-signed prescriptions, the affidavit alleges. In 2013, Ley allegedly wrote nearly 8,500 prescriptions, generating an income of $718,000, the affidavit says.
Terre Haute-based Union Health System will cut 150 positions system-wide by the end of the year, according to the Tribune-Star. The cut represents a 5-percent reduction of the system’s 3,000 workers and is projected to produce savings of $200 million by 2020, according to a letter sent Thursday by CEO Pat Board to the hospital system’s employees. “We face numerous challenges due to changes in the healthcare environment and its impact on Union Health System, which include a shift to more outpatient services and declining reimbursement." Union Health includes Union Hospital in Terre Haute and Union Clinton Hospital in Vermillion County north of Terre Haute in western Indiana.
Community Health Network Foundation has been awarded a $1.5 million federal grant to discover ways to deliver better care at lower cost while strengthening its nursing staff. The Health Resources and Services Administration grant will fund a three-year project to encourage nurses to deliver care as teams at Community East Family Medicine Center and then replicate the model they create at seven Community hospitals and other sites of care. The grant covers 88 percent of the project’s estimated costs, and Community will provide the balance of the funding.
Dow AgroSciences LLC reported second-quarter sales of $1.9 billion, an increase of 3 percent over last year's second period. The Indianapolis-based subsidiary of Michigan-based Dow Chemical Co. reported quarterly earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, of $281 million. That was down $9 million, or 3 percent, from a year ago. Crop-protection sales rose 3 percent in the quarter, led by insecticides, which reported double-digit gains in all regions. Quarterly seed sales increased 3 percent, with growth in corn and soybeans in North America and Latin America.
In February, Indiana Limestone Co. filed for bankruptcy. But two months later, Chicago-based Wynnchurch Capital Ltd. bought the quarry company out of bankruptcy. ILC is now digging out and looking at a brighter horizon.
One of the open secrets in health care is that hospitals are paid substantially more than independently owned health care facilities for the same procedures. But those higher fees are facing unprecedented pressure.
Obamacare could, according to some health insurance experts, cause most small businesses to end their group health plans. Now a new venture-backed company opening up shop in Indiana is trying to make that prediction a reality.
A persistent seasonal anomaly for stocks is the “presidential cycle,” a pattern of performance coinciding with various years of a presidency.
By a 5-4 vote, South Bend failed to join major Indiana cities such as Indianapolis and Fort Wayne that go further than state law to prohibit smoking inside taverns.
With federal health research funding in decline, Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Institute Inc. wants to make up the difference by serving pharmaceutical companies, medical device makers, health insurers and hospital systems.
Indianapolis ranked fifth highest among the nation’s largest cities for the most positive reviews of physicians. On a five-point Patient Happiness Index, the average review by patients scored Indianapolis physicians at a 4.05. San Francisco physicians topped the list.
Indianapolis-based EmotEd LLC, recently spun out of the Indiana University School of Medicine, received nearly $200,000 from the National Institutes of Health to develop video games to diagnose and improve emotional health. The company is based on research by EmotEd founder Dawn Newmann, a research professor at the medical school who also works at Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana. The NIH money, which came via a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer award, will allow EmotEd to build an initial platform and test it in a clinical setting. EmotEd will continue to seek non-dilutive funding through Phase II STTR mechanisms and through the Department of Defense.
Indianapolis-based Activate Healthcare is expanding its employer health care clinic operations into Wisconsin, according to Modern Healthcare magazine. Activate already manages 20 near- or on-site health clinics, used by 40 employers, in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Washington. Activate was created in 2009 by former Steak n Shake CEO Peter Dunn and ex-Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates CEO Debra Geihsler. Its clients include Monroe County government in Bloomington as well as Monarch Beverage Co. and Major Tool Co. in Indianapolis. Activate is one of a handful of Indiana-based clinic operators that have been growing rapidly and expanding into other states.
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. this month started offering 4 million patients the ability to have e-visits with doctors, while Aetna Inc. says it will boost online access to 8 million people next year from 3 million now, according to Bloomberg News. The health insurers are joining companies such as Teladoc Inc., MDLive Inc. and American Well Corp. that offer virtual visits with doctors who, in some states, can prescribe drugs for anything from sinus infections to back pain. In Indiana, legislation passed this year gave the green light to WellPoint and American Well to partner with the American Health Network physician group to conduct a pilot program of the technology.
Biomet Inc. reported preliminary profit for the past 12 months of $36.8 million on sales of $3.22 billion. That's an improvement in profit of $660 million from fiscal 2013’s $623 million loss on consolidated net sales of $3.05 billion, according to the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Excluding extraordinary items, the Warsaw-based company earned $420 million for the year ended May 31. Biomet also reported fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $66.7 million on sales of $845 million, a $288 million improvement over the same period a year earlier when the company posted a $221 million loss on sales of $784 million. Zimmer Inc. in April offered to acquire Biomet for $13.35 billion. The Federal Trade Commission is considering implications of allowing the competitors to merge.
A central Indiana county is working on plans for a 60-acre aquaculture park in hopes of attracting more business connected with fish production.
Indiana physicians and research organizations reaped more than $25 million in payments from 15 pharmaceutical firms in 2012, according to the most recent data made available by the not-for-profit group ProPublica. Lilly was the biggest spender and the IU medical school was the biggest recipient.
Progress is a word with very positive connotations. The mantra seems to be: If we’re making progress, we can avoid criticism for not taking action.
It isn’t only democratic institutions and behaviors that are affected by profound ignorance of our history and government.
Near the first anniversary of ExactTarget’s $2.5 billion purchase by Salesforce.com, local tech gurus explain how the acquisition lifted all ships by bringing new prestige, investment and expertise to the city.
Jeffrey Sparks, 63, has joined Indianapolis-based not-for-profit and public policy research group Sagamore Institute as a senior fellow. He stepped down from Heartland Truly Moving Pictures in 2013.
