The donation will help establish a new faculty chair in cardiovascular innovation, support improvements to patient care and physician training, and fund research. The amount is the largest single gift ever shared by the health system and the medical school.... Read More
The Monroe Circuit Court denied a motion Wednesday morning for a permanent injunction against Indiana’s near-total ban on abortion. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana initially filed the lawsuit challenging Senate Enrolled Act 1 in September 2022.... Read More
Evansville business leader Wayne Kinney and his family are making a $6 million donation to the University of Southern Indiana's College of Nursing and Health Professions. The university said the money will be used to address the greatest needs of the college.... Read More
Elevance Health is the parent company of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which will serve as the provider for customers of IU Health Plans after the deal closes. The acquisition is expected to close at the end of the year.... Read More
The first project in northwest Indiana to receive READI 2.0 funds is the Duneland YMCA in Chesterton. The project is getting $1 million from the state to turn a former middle school into a YMCA.... Read More
An expanded facility to train nurses on the campus of Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington welcomed its first students at the beginning of the fall semester. The 4,000-square-foot nursing school expansion nearly doubled the number of training lab beds to 15.... Read More
A Marion County judge on Tuesday dismissed a case that sought to overturn a state agency’s decision to exempt terminated pregnancy reports from public record—though an appeal in the case is almost certainly guaranteed.... Read More
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday submitted a letter to the Indiana Department of Health expressing its opposition to Union Health's proposed acquisition of Terre Haute Regional Hospital. The commission urged the IDOH to deny the...... Read More
Marian University on Friday announced a $150 million campaign to raise funds for its health sciences programs—an effort aimed at increasing enrollment from 162 to 185 students per class in its College of Osteopathic Medicine.... Read More
The Village Premier project is adding a health clinic. Officials in Fort Wayne broke ground Thursday on a Meridian Health Services clinic that signals a shift to a new phase of the larger housing project.... Read More
The Indiana University School of Medicine’s Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy has developed a playbook of recommendations to boost the number of mental health professionals in the state.... Read More
The Indiana University School of Medicine announced last week that researchers there are leading a multistate study using artificial intelligence to better predict breast cancer risk and overcome health inequities in preventive care.... Read More
The Elkhart Area Career Center recently launched its surgical technology facility to address a growing need for sterile processing and surgical technology professionals in the region. The new facility also fulfills EACC’s desire to expand the possibility for ...... Read More
The last two parents of medically fragile children receiving state payments for attendant care will transition to Structured Family Caregiving with everyone else following a Friday court ruling. But the federal judge presiding over the lawsuit ruled that...... Read More
A leading researcher in the neuroscience of addiction has been named the inaugural executive director of the Institute for Human Health and Wellbeing at IU Indianapolis. Stephen Boehm is a professor and chairman of the department of psychology at IU Indy.... Read More
Co-founded by an Indiana University graduate, Sunny Period has received a $250,000 investment from the IU Angel Network. Founders Drew Jarvis and Cindy Belardo position their menstrual cup product as an eco-friendly alternative to tampons.... Read More
After more than a year of construction, Manchester University is celebrating the completion of a nearly $20 million expansion of its Fort Wayne campus. The project added more than 32,000 square feet of space to the university's health science hub.... Read More
NorthShore Health Centers and Northwest Health Indiana this week announced a joint medical residency initiative to provide training to physicians specializing in internal medicine. The residents will do in-patient rotations at...... Read More
University of Notre Dame researchers have developed an automated device for diagnosing glioblastoma, a fast-growing and incurable brain cancer, in less than an hour, revolutionizing care for patients who historically only survive for 12-18 months after diagnosis.... Read More
A Valparaiso couple was awarded $25.8 million in damages by a Lake County jury after a medical center failed to transfer test results that contained information about the husband’s cancer diagnosis.... Read More
