Startup NICO raises another $1.73M
Indianapolis-based medical-device startup NICO Corp. has raised $1.73 million from investors.
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Cook splits device unit to focus on cancer products
Cook Medical has split its interventional devices business into two units, pulling its lesser known cancer products out from under the shadow of its heart products.
Grants will shrink, life sciences leader predicts
Last fall, BioCrossroads named Leonard J. Betley—chairman of the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, the Regenstrief Foundation
and the Walther Cancer Foundation—its inaugural Life Sciences Champion of the Year. IBJ recently caught up with Betley to get his thoughts on the latest life sciences developments and gauge the climate
for fund raising.
Legislation takes aim at Anthem
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s growing market dominance in Indiana is sparking a backlash from doctors who plan to push
a bill this year in the Indiana General Assembly that would allow physicians to reject patients covered by massive health
insurer.
Lilly makes $6.5B acquisition
Eli Lilly and Co. CEO John Lechleiter played a game of pharmaceutical poker with former Lilly Chief Financial Officer Jim
Cornelius—and won.
WellPoint shares suffer
It was a bad year to be a shareholder of most companies. But the value of the Indianapolis-based health insurer’s stock lost
more than 55 percent of its value during the year.
3M prepares launch of Hoosier startup’s toothpaste
In January, St. Paul, Minn.-based 3M will release “Clinpro 5000,” a specialty toothpaste Indiana Nanotech developed.
Have you checked your PSA lately?
I’m here to plead with all men and the people who love them: Don’t be lazy like I was about getting annual PSA checks
and physical exams.
Thanks for column on smoking law
Thank you for taking time to write an amazing [Maurer column in the Dec. 15] IBJ on smoke-free air. Your editorial and others written by IBJ staff will help influence local policymakers to pass a comprehensive smoke-free-air law in Indianapolis and Indiana. Smoke Free Indy is very grateful to have yours and IBJ’s support as […]
New retirement savings law means new biz for AUL
In order to comply with stricter rules from the Internal Revenue Service, schools and other not-for-profits are making changes
and consolidations to retirement plans, creating growth opportunities for companies like Indianapolis-based American United
Life Insurance Co.
A health plan for job hoppers
Indianapolis-based Golden Rule Insurance Co. has launched a plan aimed at people who move in and out of jobs that don’t offer
health insurance.
‘Smoke free’ needs to be the law in all Hoosier public places
If Indianapolis is going to be a first-class city, it needs to have a comprehensive smoke-free workplace law.
My Health Care Manager goes national
Less than three years into its life, Indianapolis-based My Health Care Manager is going national.
New ER in Mooresville likely to intensify competition with Martinsville’s Morgan Hospital
St. Francis Hospital-Mooresville is seeing higher-than-projected use of a newly added emergency department that has firmed
up its status as a full-service hospital.
Generic meds cost more than consumers realize
Generic drug makers drive up the cost of name-brand drugs developed by locally based Eli Lilly and Co. and other pharmaceutical
firms.
Gallagher buys two more brokers to increase size
Dane Hudson continues an acquisition binge aimed at making Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. a stronger health benefits broker in
the Indianapolis market.
Women are top leaders in Hoosier public health posts
Dr. Judith Monroe, Dr. Virginia Caine and G. Marie Swanson are three local women who have risen to leadership positions
in the health care community.
Lilly fighting with generic drug firms over Cymbalta, Alimta, 5 other medications
Eli Lilly & Co. has filed lawsuits against seven generic drug companies in federal court in Indianapolis, asking a judge to
declare its Cymbalta patent valid and to tell the generic companies to back off.
Smoke Free Indy advocates mount new campaign
Anti-smoking advocates are organizing a new attempt to strengthen Indianapolis’ ban against smoking in the workplace.
Health reform network crumbles without Rooney
The state’s Dec. 1 takeover of Medical Savings Insurance Co. marks the formal crumbling of J. Patrick Rooney’s network of
health care reform efforts.