Eskenazi Health is launching a $60 million campaign to support its efforts to reduce health disparities and improve life expectancy across central Indiana. Beyond Barriers aims to address social drivers that affect the health and well-being of residents.... Read More
Zionsville-based GeniPhys has completed a $6 million Series A round of funding, the company announced Wednesday. GeniPhys has developed a material known as Collymer, a highly-purified form of collagen that is used to support tissue generation.... Read More
The USDA has awarded a $650,000 grant to West Lafayette-based NutraMaize, which has developed nutritionally enhanced orange corn. The company said the grant will be used to demonstrate the benefits of feeding its orange corn to poultry on a commercial scale.... Read More
A Senate proposal with multiple provisions to ease the health care process looks a lot simpler following a flurry of House committee amendments.... Read More
Kevin Speer, the president and CEO of Hendricks Regional Health, one of central Indiana’s largest suburban health systems, has been named to lead Ascension St. Vincent, a larger system that spans much of the state. Speer will take his new job May 1.... Read More
Three Indianapolis-based nonprofits have announced a partnership to study the experiences of pregnant and postpartum women in Indiana Health Fund's medical debt relief program. The program was established to help prevent families from facing financial hardship or medical bankruptcy because of overwhelming medical expenses.... Read More
In a press release, Ascension said that Nalli “will be transitioning out of his role” and that it was “grateful to Jonathan for his contributions.” It did not give any details of Nalli’s departure or say whether other members of his team are also leaving.... Read More
Carmel-based health care technology startup Blue Agilis Corp. has secured a $2.5 million round of seed funding from one of the nation’s largest health care payers. The funding round closed on March 10, said Blue Agilis co-founder and CEO Nadia Adams. ... Read More
Franciscan Health Crown Point has partnered with one of the top children’s hospitals in Illinois to boost its care for premature babies or newborns with high-risk complications. ... Read More
Cameron Memorial Community Hospital in Angola is partnering with Trine University to support students in Trine's new nursing program. The partnership includes the construction of a new education and innovation facility on the hospital campus.... Read More
Shares of Elanco Animal Health dropped 4% on Wednesday to a new all-time low after Moody’s Investor Service downgraded the company’s credit rating. Moody’s action pushed Elanco’s credit rating further into “junk bond” territory.... Read More
The former president and first lady of Indiana University have gifted $500,00 to IU Health. The gift from Michael McRobbie and Laurie Burns McRobbie will support behavioral health services at the IU Regional Academic Health Center in Bloomington.... Read More
Professors from Purdue University and Indiana University are teaming up to find new ways to assist in the care of babies born with heart defects. Specifically, Pavlos Vlachos and Mark Payne are using a new tool to address hypoplastic left heart syndrome.... Read More
Suicides are climbing faster among young people than adults, triggering alarm bells that “what we’re doing isn’t working,” says University of Notre Dame psychologist Theodore Beauchaine. He’s co-leading a mission to reinvent teen suicide prevention efforts.... Read More
An Australian biotech company that has its U.S. headquarters in Fishers has received additional approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Telix Pharmaceuticals says its lead prostate cancer imaging product, Illuccix, is now authorized to...... Read More
Dr. Malaz Boustani, an esteemed brain doctor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, is haunted by the fact that he didn’t identify his own father’s Alzheimer’s disease. “I think I’m a great brain doctor—and I missed it,” he says. ... Read More
A debate over Hoosier students’ vaccination records ensued at the Indiana Statehouse Wednesday as lawmakers weighed a bill that seeks to prohibit schools from coupling health and academic documents. Current state law permits schools to include a student’s immunization information with their high school transcript.... Read More
The IU School of Medicine has terminated a research project involving surgery on live pigs after officials discovered the laboratory workers were using expired surgical supplies. It was unclear exactly what the medical school was researching under the project.... Read More
Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness in the U.S., but more than half of the cases are undiagnosed. An Indianapolis startup has its sights set on commercializing high-tech contact lenses that could diagnose glaucoma and delay its progression. ... Read More
Lutheran Health Network is forming a joint venture with Pennsylvania-based Select Medical Corp. to provide inpatient rehabilitation and critical illness recovery care in Fort Wayne. The joint venture plans to build a new specialty hospital in the city.... Read More
