2022 Health Care Heroes: Director led city’s pandemic response
Monica Heltz is the public health director for the city of Fishers, which launched its own public health department during the pandemic.
Monica Heltz is the public health director for the city of Fishers, which launched its own public health department during the pandemic.
Greg Carter works under the umbrella of harm reduction; much of his research has focused on identifying barriers to HIV screening and creating community-based HIV prevention interventions.
Scott Janke treats veterans who have entered the Indianapolis Veterans Treatment Court, which provides help to veterans involved in the criminal justice system who are dealing with addiction, mental illnesses and injuries.
The lack of urgency in addressing high hospital prices in Indiana by the vast majority of not-for-profit hospitals is intolerable.
Indiana prices are higher than those of all our neighboring states.
The company deliberately and methodically deployed a multifaceted plan to addict a generation of adolescents to nicotine.
Memories of patients, staff members and neighbors of Central State Mental Hospital are being compiled for a digital archive.
In August, a team of Riley physicians, advanced practice providers and nurses began making plans to provide care to hundreds of minor refugees after their families evacuated Afghanistan to escape the Taliban’s takeover of the country. But their care went beyond treating illnesses.
Months of spot shortages at pharmacies and supermarkets have been exacerbated by the recall at Abbott, which was forced to close its largest U.S. formula manufacturing plant in February due to contamination concerns.
The study used research from the Institute of Family Studies and examined the relationship between spousal income and division of housework from more than 6,000 dual-income, heterosexual married couples between 1999 and 2017.
In a new policy announced Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics said it is putting all its guidance under the microscope to eliminate “race-based” medicine and resulting health disparities.
The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.
Community Health Network said the new arrangement with the largest cancer center in the United States will give Hoosiers access to some of the most advanced cancer treatments in the nation.
In a statement to IBJ, Roche said it hopes to display “supportive and inspiring messages” visible from I-69 as part of a new corporate initiative.
An arbitrator ordered the payments, and the hospitals say they can claim at least another $12 million from Anthem for tens of thousands of additional claims that it says the insurer has downgraded and not paid in full.
With official reporting of COVID-19 cases and testing data becoming less frequent and less reliable, especially as people test at home, sewage monitoring has gained increasing importance.
The planned expansion of IU Health Saxony—which will be renamed IU Health Fishers—will more than double the number of inpatient beds. It will also add new and expanded services.
Many scientists are rethinking their strategy about the best way to fight future variants, by aiming for a higher level of protection: blocking infections altogether. If they succeed, the next vaccine could be a nasal spray.
SB 382 lowers the taxation on closed vaping products and on other smokeless tobacco products. Absolutely reprehensible.
Thursday’s coverage decision illustrates the impact that a single medication can have on the budgets of individuals and taxpayers.