Indiana accounted for 4% of the nation’s opioid-related deaths, but received just 1.9% of the nation’s $11 billion opioid-related funding awarded to states over the past two years, according to the new study.
The landmark decision is the first to hold a drugmaker culpable for the fallout of years of liberal opioid dispensing that began in the late 1990s, sparking a nationwide epidemic of overdose deaths and addiction.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, is the first such federal lawsuit in the state against Juul, a company battling numerous complaints over its products.
More than 100 nursing aides, activities coordinators, cooks and other workers at two Indianapolis senior communities could lose their jobs by mid-October when the properties are sold, owner Justus Rental Properties Inc. said.
The facility would be built on about six acres of undeveloped land off East 126th Street, east of Hoosier Road.
Indiana has one of the highest smoking rates in the country—nearly one in five Hoosiers smoke. Now, a new statewide policy makes it easier for smokers to get medication to help them quit. But some people want state leaders to do more.
Investors appeared to be nervous over the rich price of the deal and the amount of debt that Elanco will take on to finance it.
The purchase would swell Elanco from the world’s fourth-largest animal health player to the second-largest, behind only New Jersey-based Zoetis.
After years of frequent list price hikes, many drugmakers are showing some restraint, according to the analysis of drug prices.
The clinics are designed to treat patients quickly for such things are earaches, nose bleeds, twisted ankles and rashes, eliminating the need to go to a busy emergency room or wait several days to see a primary care doctor.
President Donald Trump’s plan to import cheap Canadian drugs overlooks a crucial fact: Canada’s pharmaceutical supply chain is beholden to the drugmakers.
Regulators say the insurance industry has been annually overbilling the government by billions of dollars, and now the federal government is stepping up moves to recoup money.
Jack Phillips, who has led Roche Diagnostics’ North American operations in Indianapolis since 2010, will become chief operating officer of Accelerate Diagnostics in Tucson.
The multibillion-dollar deal would swell the size of Elanco, which already is the fourth-largest global player in animal health.
The cancer center, opened in 2008, is now one of just 51 “comprehensive cancer centers” in the nation and the only one in Indiana.
The company hired Patti Kolodziejczyk as vice president of application delivery and promoted Doug Williams to vice president of finance and administration for the company’s Bankers Life brand.
The Trump administration said Wednesday it will create a pathway allowing Americans to legally and safely import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada for the first time, reversing years of opposition from federal health authorities.
The Trump administration is working on a plan that would allow Americans to import lower-priced prescription drugs from Canada, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday.
A jump in sales from the diabetes treatment Trulicity helped push the Indianapolis-based drugmaker to a better-than-expected second quarter.
Insurers say advances in medical care are prompting them to review more cases before deciding on coverage. They say the checks are not meant to delay or stifle care, but doctors say they worry about the growing influence insurers have over patient treatment.
