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What's in a word? To hear many doctors tell it, certain words matter a lot, including medical titles such as 'physicians' and 'surgeon.' People who haven't earned those titles shouldn't [...]

Of all the industries in the country. health care might be the juiciest for cyber-hackers. And around central Indiana, institutions large and small are paying the price. In the past [...]

It was a deal that seemed too good to pass up. When Sally Smith decided last year to move into a senior living community on the northwest side, she was [...]

Bridget Perkins turned on the slicing machine and got to work. On her laboratory bench at the Indiana University School of Medicine's Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, a razor-sharp blade sliced [...]

No one is disputing the fact that AES Indiana's newest power plant, Eagle Valley in Martinsville, conked out twice last year and stayed out of service for 11 months while [...]

A year after many of Indiana's large corporations and health systems began firing employees who didn't get COVID-19 vaccines, the lawsuits are beginning to pile up. In recent months, current [...]

It's a small sector of the medical industry that could be on the brink of extinction. Abortion clinics in Indiana are now in the crosshairs of the Indiana General Assembly [...]

In one of the busiest maternity hospitals in Indiana, Dr. Caroline Rouse is bracing for the unknown. Rouse, an obstetrician-gynecologist and medical director of maternity services at Riley Hospital for [...]

For nearly 21 years. Toby Brower has spent his days examining patients, taking histories, ordering lab tests, and managing treatment plans. Brower, a physieian assistant at Franciscan Health, said he [...]

It's planting season, and all around the Indiana countryside, the land is being readied for the hottest new crop. It's not a new strain of corn or soybean, but thousands [...]

It's like catching sunshine in a botlle and saving it for a cloudy day. Energy storage--the process of capturing energy and using it later--is nowhere near as easy as standing [...]

The news seemed to surprise just about everyone--and send some scurrying for superlatives. When Eli Lilly and Co. announced on April 28 that a much-anticipated experimental drug for obesity, a [...]

There was nothing especially new in David Ricks' comments to The Economic Club of Indiana on April 20. The CEO of Eli Lilly and Co. told a lunch crowd at [...]

Larry Doone hoped his aggressive, high-risk prostate cancer would be history when he got his prostate gland surgically removed in November. But a few weeks later, the retired, 72-year-old Greenwood [...]

Hospitals say insurer owes another $12M For five years, health insurer Anthem Inc. has tried to clamp down on what it considered unnecessary, expensive visits to emergency rooms by denying [...]

Some Indiana facilities are 'on the brink' Every time Paul Wilkinson walks into Rush Memorial Hospital, he says a small word of thanks that the 72-year-old rural hospital is still [...]

It's a massive, tangled legal case that shows no sign of wrapping up soon. Already, it has dragged on longer than the Golden Gate Bridge construction (four years) and World [...]

It was supposed to be smooth sailing for Eli Lilly and Co.'s new experimental drug for Alzheimer's disease. Instead, the skies have suddenly darkened, at least for a while, for [...]

One state at a time, public officials are setting out the welcome mat for nuclear power. Five years ago, Kentucky 1 if ted its 25-year-old ban on construction of nuclear [...]

For an organization that regularly lands individual gifts worth tens of millions of dollars, the University of Notre Dame likes to keep a low profile about how it approaches deep-pocket [...]

Jack Van Der Linden woke up in his hotel room with a dull headache. As the day went on, he felt worse, with fever, chills and muscle aches. Wondering if [...]

Hospitals in central Indiana diverted ambulances for nearly 3,000 hours during a six-week period this fall, according to information IBJ received from the Indiana State Department of Health through an [...]

It's one of the trickiest paths an employer must tread: when to make allowances for workers who express sincerely held religious views on matters ranging from work schedules to dress [...]

Paul Martino is on the prowl to buy hundreds of primary care medical practices, and he has more than $5 billion in his pocket to make it happen. Martino, a [...]

It's a brand-new disease, and scientists are scrambling to understand it. But this much is clear: COVID-19 is not showing much mercy to seniors, or to people with high blood [...]

By John Russell jrussell@ibj.com Every fall, like clockwork, the list comes out, prompting heartburn in some hospital administrative suites and small cheers in others. It's the annual report card of [...]

There's nothing small about Energy Vault Inc. The 4-year-old California company, which is still refining its energy storage technology and has yet to turn a profit, thinks on a huge [...]

The sounds of drums and a cheering crowd fill the air as Indianapolis Colts head coach Frank Reich looks into the camera. He's got his game face on, but he's [...]

A light rain drizzled outside the 'Today' show set at Rockefeller Center in New York City, but top officials of Indiana-based WindStream Technologies were all smiles. The NBC news and [...]

Want to work at Target, Lowe's or Kroger? Get ready to mask up. As the highly contagious delta variant surges across Indiana and the nation, retailers, manufacturers and offices are [...]

The clock is ticking for workers at large hospital systems across central Indiana to get vaccinated for COVID-19 or risk losing their jobs. Thousands of hospital workers have yet to [...]

It's a blur of activity inside the cavernous industrial building off of Georgetown Road as workers race to get everything set up and running by the end of August. Just [...]

While businesses from restaurants to airlines were laying off employees last year by the boatload because of the pandemic, an Indianapolis company with a clunky name, Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives [...]

It's a small space, just 450 square feet, in a former garage at the 16 Tech innovation district, crammed with computer equipment. But inside the lab, which has been open [...]

Almost as fast as they went up, they came down again. Temporary infusion clinics in central Indiana that were hurriedly set up to treat patients diagnosed with early stages of [...]

When activist investor Paul Singer sets his eyes on a struggling company, he makes waves. The billionaire acquired bookstore chain Barnes & Noble, which had suffered seven years of declining [...]

For more than a century, drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. has pushed for innovation, with medical breakthroughs to treat diabetes, depression, erectile dysfunction and other maladies. But six years ago, [...]

You can use your phone to trade stocks, hail a limousine, track a delivery, interview for a job, order takeout food and read just about every book ever published. But [...]

An unmarked white truck pulled into the parking lot across from Brookside Community Church on East Tenth Street and slid open its doors. Soon people began lining up, handing over [...]

Matthew Sause could hardly have picked a tougher time to start his new job as CEO of Roche Diagnostics' North American operations in Indianapolis. Sause took the helm of the [...]

Real estate developer Lauth Group is offering its workers a day off with pay when they get fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Duke Energy Indiana is promising workers 'health reward points' [...]

There's a new war on drugs in Indiana, but not involving cops and street gangs. This is a battle over the hefty prices hospitals charge for specialty drugs to treat [...]

It happened just last month at Topeka Pharmacy, a small drugstore about an hour north of Fort Wayne. A longtime customer needed a prescription filled for a 90-day supply of [...]

The testing laboratory at GenePace LLC sits quiet much of the time, running only 100 or so COVID-19 tests a day. But the 3-month-old firm, which collects and tests samples [...]

The headquarters building of Indianapolis' newest publicly traded company, home-health care provider Apria Inc., does nothing to call attention to itself. It sits behind a car wash, a grocery store [...]

Like an up-escalator that offers rides in just one direction, the cost of health care has been marching upward relentlessly. Since 2010, average family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance have [...]

The headlines were full of hope and promise. Three weeks ago, Eli Lilly and Co. created a national stir when it reported that a new drug for Alzheimer's disease slowed [...]

The line stretched nearly three dozen people long, around a corner and down the hall at Indiana University Health's vaccine clinic near Methodist Hospital. To one side, nurses were administering [...]

For a highly touted drug meant to keep throngs of people out of hospitals during a pandemic, Eli Lilly and Co.'s wonder treatment bamlanivimab sure has been slow to catch [...]

A few days before Thanksgiving, retired Indianapolis firefighter Richard Mann was feeling weak and having trouble breathing. 'I was so short of breath it was scary,' he said. Alarmed, his [...]