A national report finds Indiana ahead of other states in road safety policies.

Indiana Health Commissioner Jerome Adams was nominated by President Donald Trump to be the next U.S. Surgeon General.

Medicaid spending on three important medications used to treat opioid addiction increased 136 percent nationwide between 2011 and 2016.

Research by the Polis Center found that in some low-income Indianapolis neighborhoods, the smoking rate is 29.4 percent, nearly twice the national average.

Eli Lilly and Pfizer are working together to develop the new class of drug that is in late-trial stages. There hasn’t been a new pain medication discovery in about 50 years. The last new non-opioid pain medication to hit the market was ibuprofen in the late 1960s.

The rate of opioid related admissions to Indiana hospitals and emergency departments has increased dramatically over the past 10 years.

The Senate bill is similar to the House bill in a few key ways. Hoosier Democrats and Republicans point to the weakened insurance market in Indiana.

In 2011, just more than 2,000 Alzheimer’s deaths were recorded in Indiana. But in 2015 – the most recent year with state data – that figure had climbed by more than a quarter, to more than 2,500.

MDwise and Anthem – the only two companies with plans currently available in every county – announced within hours of each other Wednesday that they were leaving Indiana’s Affordable Care Act exchange.

The Madison County Council last week tabled a $15,000 request from the county health department to fund the program.