An experimental flu vaccine developed by a Madison company reduced flu virus levels and symptoms in people exposed to a mismatched strain, according to study results released Tuesday. The study by FluGen Inc., founded by UW-Madison scientists Yoshi Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann, simulated the mismatch that...
Propeller Health is partnering with Orion Corporation, a digital therapeutics company, to connect its Easyhaler line of inhalers for asthma and COPD to Propeller’s digital medicine platform. “This partnership with Orion is another significant step toward reducing the burden of chronic respiratory disease for people around the world,”...
GUEST COLUMN Contact: Eric Borgerding at 608-274-1820 or Tom Still at 608-442-7557 MADISON, Wis. – If you were asked to name Wisconsin’s largest economic sectors, how would you answer? You might respond manufacturing, agriculture, tourism and even technology … and you would be correct about all four. What might...
The Wisconsin Hospital Association's chief operating officer says recent price transparency rules from the federal government require hospitals to display complex technical pricing information that tells the average patient little. Brian Potter calls the Jan. 1 rule change a "strange requirement," saying the information is...
Researchers at UW-Madison have discovered a new method for treating radiation-induced tissue damage using certain white blood cells altered with stem cells. According to an info sheet from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, existing radiation treatments can reduce damage to the thyroid, which can have its...
A state commission has designed a care delivery model to increase access to treatment for substance use disorder. But critical parts of the model, like how it'll be paid for, still need work. The report from the Commission on Substance Abuse Treatment Delivery was released at...
Telling the story of how healthcare quality can help build a strong economy while better connecting young tech-based businesses with the state’s leading healthcare providers are among the missions of the Wisconsin Healthcare Business Forum. The board of directors for the Healthcare Business Forum met Dec....
This Madison-based insurance company has a public employee member population of nearly 100,000 people. He explains that the health problems he's trying to solve for those people "are problems that I couldn't have solved patient-by-patient." "My job every day is to figure out how to match...
By 2030, Wisconsin’s population age 65 and older will double (1), creating an increasing demand for health care now and in the future. As our citizens age, so does the state’s health care workforce, leading to future retirements and vacancies that must be filled to...
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced today the recipients of new grants totaling close to $300,000 over two years to assist rural hospitals in filling “high need, high demand” positions – those where the demand for specific professionals exceeds the supply of available...