Health

Damar Services plans to hire dozens of employees and add autism services when it takes over the Carmelite Home in East Chicago.... Read More

The Indianapolis-based company said Wednesday that its newest product, a drug for obesity called Zepbound, will be on pharmacy shelves shortly after Thanksgiving. The company is ramping up manufacturing capacity to avoid possible shortages and to meet potentially huge demand in a nation where more than 40% of adults are classified as obese.... Read More

Indianapolis-based life sciences consulting firm Pearl Pathways has been acquired by Milwaukee-based Versiti, a not-for-profit specializing in blood-health services, the parties announced Tuesday.... Read More

The Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at Ascension St. Vincent recently achieved the highest designation of trauma care.... Read More

The National Cancer Institute granted the funding to Dr. Mark Kelley and Dr. Melissa Fishel who are studying new therapies for pancreatic cancer. ... Read More

HealthLinc's new CEO will begin at the first of the year and replace Beth Wrobel who is retiring after 22 years of leadership.... Read More

Rural Hoosiers face a number of barriers furthering the accesibility of adequate health care, forcing them to likely drive farther, maneuver around a large-scale provider shortage and use internet services unavailable to them as well as deal with universal issues such as cost and insurance coverage issues. Lack of access can often equate to a lack of care when roadblocks to preventative and primary care are too severe.... Read More

As Indiana hits the halfway point for the Medicaid unwinding process, the rate of Hoosiers losing benefits seems to have slowed as the state reassesses the coverage of millions of beneficiaries following the expiration of pandemic protections.... Read More

Indianapolis-based Foster Success supported more than 1,000 older foster youth throughout the state for the first time, according to its latest impact report. The not-for-profit is also marking the recent launch of its new mental health program.... Read More

The Indiana Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded Attorney General Todd Rokita for comments he made about Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the OB-GYN at the center of a controversy over abortion rights in Indiana.... Read More

Community Health Network has socked away $75 million in a “potential settlement agreement” with the U.S. Justice Department and a former chief financial officer who filed a whistleblower suit nearly a decade ago.... Read More

Schneck Medical Center in Seymour is ranked at the top of the "Best Hospitals for Nurses in the U.S." list from nursing career and education website TopRNtoBSN.com. Schneck is the only Indiana hospital on the list.... Read More

Excluding nonrecurring items, the Indianapolis-based drugmaker posted adjusted earnings of 10 cents a share, beating Zacks consensus estimate of a loss of 11 cents a share.... Read More

Thankam Thyvalikakath will study and teach the identification of Sjögren's disease in dental practices.... Read More

Three health care entities urged a Marion County judge to quash civil investigative demands from Attorney General Todd Rokita Tuesday, part of an ongoing battle over gender-affirming care. Rokita used subpoena-like demands seeking medical records.... Read More

Portugal-based orthopedic technology company PeekMed announced its establishment of a formal subsidiary as PeekMed LLC based in Warsaw, Indiana. The company said the expansion is timed with the launch of its web platform that's undergoing testing to hit the US market.... Read More

The university will use the grant, called Applying Global Lessons to Advance Health Equity in Indiana, to adapt and use research from its Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare partnership in Kenya. IU began working with a university and hospital in the country 35 years ago to build health systems and promote well-being in underserved areas.... Read More

A medical device manufacturer in Kosciusko County will soon be under new ownership. Private equity firm American Securities announced Tuesday it has reached an agreement to sell Pierceton-based Paragon Medical to Ametek in a deal valued at $1.9 billion. ... Read More

Prior to Health First Indiana, the state’s public health investment was around $6.9 million, compared to the 2024 commitment of $75 million followed by $150 million in 2025.... Read More

Indiana University announced Monday afternoon that it plans to invest more than $250 million to create two new science and health research institutes in Indianapolis, recruit life-sciences researchers to Bloomington, and expand or renovate laboratory space at both campuses.... Read More