Attorneys in a lawsuit against Indiana’s near-total abortion ban jumped right into testimony Wednesday, beginning a trial in which plaintiffs are seeking to widen medical exemptions and strike down a requirement that stripped abortion clinics of their...... Read More
Abortion providers are asking an Indiana trial judge to broaden access to abortions under the state's near-total ban. Indiana law allows for abortion in rare circumstances, including when the health or life of the woman is at risk, but only at a hospital.... Read More
Three University of Notre Dame students are reimagining the way breast cancer patients receive treatment. Sunghoon Rho, Ciara Dillon and Nicholas Ross, co-founders of South Bend-based VisiLocate, a company seeking to help surgeons find breast cancer tumors using a miniature localization light device, clinched the grand prize at the McCloskey New Venture Competition held in April.... Read More
The Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded a $5.4 million grant to South Bend-based Beacon Health System. The grant will support the launch of a program to improve birth outcomes, promote health equity, and eliminate health disparities.... Read More
Loneliness in older people has a similar mortality risk to smoking 15 cigarettes per day and is more harmful than alcoholism or obesity. Studies have already made these alarming connections, and now a team of Indiana researchers has uncovered just how...... Read More
Like the rest of Indiana’s Medicaid landscape, adult day services face a monumental change this summer when the state transitions to managed care. For providers, that means a Managed Care Entity will handle their claims and payments rather than the state.... Read More
Every county in Indiana seems to have signed onto a state effort to provide $150 million in enhanced funding for public health departments in the coming year in exchange for providing “core” public health services. The Indiana Capital Chronicle called...... Read More
China gave the greenlight to Eli Lilly & Co.’s blockbuster drug tirzepatide for use in treating diabetes, a move that will intensify the drugmaker’s rivalry with Novo Nordisk A/S over weight-loss drugs in the world’s second-largest market.... Read More
The world of sports is taking head injuries more seriously than ever, and it's no different for motorsports. For the first time ever, IndyCar now has a neurologist on its medical team. The month of May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is actually the...... Read More
A Swiss-based drugmaker plans to double the size of its Indianapolis manufacturing plant, which produces nuclear medicine imaging and therapy products for cancer, in a move that would create 55 jobs with an average wage of $95,000.... Read More
Butler University is setting up a bachelor of science in nursing program, a four-year program that marks the university’s first foray into nursing as Indiana faces a growing workforce crunch in the field. The school said it will accept applications on...... Read More
The new project will create 34 two- and three-bedroom units for families recovering and healing from substance use disorder.... Read More
Indiana saw the second-highest percentage decrease nationwide for overdose deaths in 2023 at nearly 18%, compared to 3% nationwide, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.... Read More
Terre Haute-based Hamilton Center Inc. said Tuesday it is increasing salaries for its nurses and therapists. The regional health system said the move follows a continuous evaluation of its operational structure, salaries, benefits and culture.... Read More
Indiana’s hospital prices remain among the highest in the nation, according to the latest study conducted by research group Rand Corp. released Monday morning. Indiana employers and employees are paying nearly three times, or 297%, what Medicare pays for...... Read More
Not-for-profit organizations that provide health care services to certain at-risk communities may be eligible for up to $10,000 in financial support and in-kind donations from Mishawaka-based Franciscan Health.... Read More
Nearly $100,000 will support 15 organizations seeking to improve the community's mental health and reduce substance abuse as part of Richmond-based Reid Health's Community Benefit program. The health system said it was looking to disperse money to...... Read More
To environmentalists, the scores of coal ash ponds that have sprung up around Indiana power plants over the decades are a looming threat to public health and water supplies. Most are near rivers and filled with toxic chemicals, including arsenic and mercury.... Read More
The Indiana Donor Network, an organ, tissue and cornea recovery and donation organization, named Paul Lange its vice president of clinical operations and medical director last week. In his new position, Lange will oversee organ and tissue recovery operations.... Read More
In the wake of a Medicaid budget snafu, in which a forecast missed the mark by nearly $1 billion, the Family and Social Services Administration has launched monthly Medicaid finance reports detailing expenditures, enrollment and funding of the program.... Read More
