Lakewood, New Jersey-based Avenues Recovery Center is getting set to open a new, 120-bed drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in northern Indiana. The $10 million facility in Mishawaka will employ about 100 people when fully operational.... Read More
Elanco Animal Health Inc. said Monday it has reached an agreement with an activist investment firm that has been calling for a shakeup of the board and the dismissal of CEO Jeffrey Simmons. The company said that as part of the agreement with...... Read More
Valparaiso University has partnered with an online-education provider to offer three graduate health care degrees with the interests of working professionals in mind.... Read More
A 2024 report analyzing 2022 infant death records with a preliminary glimpse at 2023 fatalities found that deaths decreased between the two years, from 7.2 deaths per 1,000 live births to 6.5 deaths per 1,000 live births. ... Read More
At a South Bend political rally on Saturday, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita accused public health entities across the state of submitting “faulty” and “unsound” data when it came to COVID-19’s death toll and positivity rate.... Read More
University of Notre Dame researchers sent brain cancer research to new heights aboard NASA’s 30th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission on Thursday. Capitalizing on the microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station, assistant professor Meenal Datta, an affiliate of Notre Dame’s Harper Cancer Research Institute, seeks new insight into human biology.... Read More
The Indiana State Board of Animal Health announced Thursday it is launching a new division to help combat the threat of avian flu upon the state’s poultry industry. The Avian Health Division will begin April 1, led by Maria Cooper.... Read More
A software platform designed by three Purdue University professors is helping primary care case managers connect patients with a variety of social services. Known as Bridges, the software is linked to Indiana 211, which provides Hoosiers with help from...... Read More
Research teams led by a Purdue University professor have received $6.7 million in federal grants to further development of a “smart” soft contact lens that can monitor glaucoma, dry-eye syndrome and other chronic eye diseases.... Read More
The former St. Joseph's Hospital in Huntingburg will soon have new life. Evansville-based Deaconess Health System and Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center in Jasper have acquired the former hospital property, which has been vacant for years.... Read More
Indiana University Health’s planned $4.3 billion hospital complex in Indianapolis is designed to be an “indispensable, always-ready facility” to treat some of the state’s sickest patients, the system’s top executive said Tuesday.... Read More
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is seeking action against multiple Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PMBs) and drug companies for what he calls a “conspiracy” to raise prices on insulin medication and unfairly profit off Hoosiers.... Read More
Indiana University has landed a $20 million gift to establish a new research center for lung cancer and to staff it with a leadership team and several researchers. The gift is from local philanthropist Julie Wood, in honor of her late husband, Tom Wood.... Read More
Cincinnati-based The Kroger Co. is selling its specialty pharmacy business to CarelonRx, a subsidiary of Elevance Health in Indianapolis, the grocery retailer announced Monday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.... Read More
Two central Indiana nurses face disciplinary action over allegations they took or shared photos of a patient in treatment, violating that patient’s privacy rights. The Indiana Attorney General’s Office filed administrative complaints this month with the...... Read More
An Indiana mom is on a mission to turn her young son's drug overdose into a campaign to save lives. USA Today recently celebrated its 2024 Women of the Year, naming one inspirational woman from each state, and Indiana's honoree is a mom who...... Read More
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is partnering with the Indiana Joint Replacement Institute (IJRI) and Union Health to establish a $30 million outpatient surgery center at the planned Innovation Grove district on the Terre Haute campus.... Read More
Valparaiso-based HealthLinc is using a $2 million grant from the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration to launch what it's calling a first-of-its-kind behavioral health residency program. The organization says the program will begin this summer.... Read More
In late 2022, Paoli-based Southern Indiana Community Health Care announced it was opening new clinics in Lawrence County to fill a gap in services created by the closure of Ascension Dunn Hospital and several Ascension Medical Group practices.... Read More
Richmond-based Reid Health has begun site work on new, $100 million campus in Connersville. The new facility, being constructed at the site of a former Kmart, will replace the former Fayette Regional Health System facility the health system acquired in 2019.... Read More
