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4 days ago | 
wfyi.org | Benjamin Thorp |Ben Thorp
May 12, 2025
Eli Lilly and Company on Friday announced it would expand a partnership with Purdue University. The pharmaceutical giant plans to pump around $250 million into research initiatives over the next eight years.
Purdue President Mung Chiang said it may be the largest industry-academic agreement of its kind in the United States.
The Lilly announcement will extend an agreement aimed at accelerating medicine development and bolstering the workforce-talent pipeline.
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4 days ago | 
wfyi.org | Benjamin Thorp |Ben Thorp
May 12, 2025
More babies are being admitted to neonatal intensive care units, or NICUs, across the country, according to a data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The brief looked at NICU admissions between 2016 and 2023.
Generally, infants can be admitted to the NICU for a variety of reasons, including being born early, underweight, having birth defects, infections or heart or respiratory issues.
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1 week ago | 
wfyi.org | Benjamin Thorp |Ben Thorp
May 7, 2025
Nearly half of all Americans live with dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.
The latest annual State of the Air report, which looked at the period between 2021 and 2023, found that the number of people living in an area that received a failing grade on at least one measure of air pollution rose by about 25 million nationwide.
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2 weeks ago | 
wfyi.org | Benjamin Thorp |Ben Thorp
April 29, 2025
Local groups want an apology after Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith made comments defending the Three-Fifths Compromise, which counted each slave as three-fifths of a person.
During debate on a bill limiting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the state, Democrats likened it to the 1787 Constitutional Convention agreement.
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3 weeks ago | 
wfyi.org | Benjamin Thorp |Ben Thorp
April 24, 2025
Indiana lawmakers rejected a measure to require schools to carry medications used to reverse an opioid overdose. Instead, they approved language that would expand the kinds of opioid reversing medications that can be stocked in schools.
HB 1376 was signed into law by Gov. Mike Braun on Tuesday.
The bill author, Rep. Pat Boy (D-Michigan City), said she was disappointed that lawmakers struck down the effort to require schools to carry the medications.
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3 weeks ago | 
wfyi.org | Benjamin Thorp |Ben Thorp
April 19, 2025
A large group of anti-Trump protestors gathered Saturday at the Indiana Statehouse, part of an ongoing national protest movement.
Local organizers said this is the tenth protest they’ve held so far this year.
Chanting, holding signs and listening to guest speakers, members of the crowd said they're worried about a laundry list of issues — from free speech to deportations — arguing that the Trump administration is behaving in an unlawful manner.
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1 month ago | 
gazettextra.com | Devna Bose |Benjamin Thorp
By DEVNA BOSE/Associated Press and BENJAMIN THORP/Side Effects Public Media In collaboration with The Associated Press, Side Effects Public Media's Ben Thorp reports that experts say things will only get worse as the U.S. prepares for a "silver tsunami" - that is, an aging population, which may come with complex diseases and more dementia cases. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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1 month ago | 
houstonchronicle.com | Devna Bose |Benjamin Thorp
AURORA, Ill. (AP) - At her mother's home in Illinois, Tracy Balhan flips through photos of her dad, Bill Speer. In one picture, he's smiling in front of a bucket of sweating beers and wearing a blue T-shirt that reads, "Pops. The man. The myth. The legend."Balhan's father died last year after struggling with dementia. During one episode late in his life, he became so agitated that he tried to exit a moving car.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Devna Bose |Benjamin Thorp
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1 month ago | 
times-news.com | Devna Bose |Benjamin Thorp
AURORA, Ill. (AP) — At her mother’s home in Illinois, Tracy Balhan flips through photos of her dad, Bill Speer. In one picture, he’s smiling in front of a bucket of sweating beers and wearing a blue T-shirt that reads, “Pops. The man. The myth. The legend.”Balhan’s father died last year after struggling with dementia. During one episode late in his life, he became so agitated that he tried to exit a moving car.
