Preserving access to quality health care in rural parts of Wisconsin is becoming a bigger and bigger challenge. Reimbursement rates from Medicaid and Medicare that are too often below the cost of the service, provider shortages, dairy industry struggles and an aging population are some...
Health care costs are a top concern for voters as the nation heads into the 2020 presidential election.1 Many people — an estimated 164 million under age 65, or roughly half the population of the United States — have insurance through employers.2 Sensing this concern, some Democratic...
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Doug Stafford, president and CEO of Pantherics Inc., a Milwaukee startup developing a pill-based alternative to treat asthma. His company spun out of research from UW-Milwaukee, focused on ways to treat various inflammatory diseases of smooth muscles,...
Members of Milwaukee’s startup ecosystem see potential for the city to capture more venture capital dollars in the health care sector. Speaking at a kick-off event for Startup Milwaukee Week, Venture Investors Chief Financial Officer David Arnstein noted more than $2.8 billion was invested in Midwest...
And the number of Cologuard colon cancer tests performed during the quarter increased 89 percent from the same quarter last year to reach 456,000 tests. Kevin Conroy, chairman and CEO of Exact Sciences, says the company has screened more than 3 million people over the past...
Starting today, Propeller users will be able to “ring” the sensor on a misplaced inhaler to make it easier to find, through an update to the Find My Inhaler feature in the Propeller app. Propeller is a digital health tool that helps people with asthma or...
The Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Hospital announced Wednesday the public launch of a wide-ranging Hope to Health Campaign. The aim is to raise $225 million by December 2020 to "drive health innovation" in Milwaukee and across the state. Since fundraising began in 2015, the campaign...
The Voyage study will enroll more than 150,000 people that order the Cologuard colon cancer test and track them for seven years, gathering data on clinical outcomes for this population. A release shows the study is one of the largest of its kind ever conducted. Colon...
Madison West High School freshman Erin Tormey leaned over and looked closely through the otoscope, seeing gray in the ear of University of Wisconsin-Madison physician assistant student Violet Weibel. That was a good sign, Weibel and her classmate Kayla Miller explained — red or pink can mean...
Kaiser Family Foundation pollster Ashley Kirzinger said health care is “among the top issues” voters want to hear about heading into the 2020 election. But she said that voters would make choices in both the presidential election and in down-ballot races “almost entirely on their perceptions...