A $10 million, five-year effort at UW-Madison to curb obesity in Wisconsin, which ended in December, met a stark reality: The state’s obesity rate, which is slightly higher than the national average, continued to go up. Leaders of the Wisconsin Obesity Prevention Initiative, funded by the...
MADISON, Wis. – With the Democratic presidential parade heading to the swing state of Wisconsin, one issue likely to draw attention from candidates and voters alike is health care: How good is it, what does it cost and how many people can readily get...
A new test for the new coronavirus that emerged in China late last year was developed by a Utah company using lab tools from Fitchburg-based Promega Corp., the companies said Tuesday. Co-Diagnostics, of Salt Lake City, said the test, called the Logix Smart Coronavirus COVID-19 Test,...
The Medical College of Wisconsin has received $2 million in gifts to establish the G. Frederick Kasten, Jr. Endowed Chair in Parkinson’s Disease Research in honor of the former Baird president, chief executive officer and chairman. Baird leaders, employees, community leaders and the company’s corporate and community partners...
Scientists at UW-Madison are exploring a new potential avenue for cancer treatment that could prove less expensive than existing therapies. In a recent study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Professor Seungpyo Hong and postdoctoral researcher Woo-jin Jeong detailed the design for a...
Froedtert Health plans to operate a new hospital campus at the former Wisconsin Heart Hospital in Wauwatosa. The health system is planning to convert the shuttered building at 10000 W. Bluemound Road, which it bought for $25 million from Ascension Wisconsin in July 2018, into an inpatient hospital,...
Exact Sciences brought in about $230 million in screening revenue during the fourth quarter of last year, according to the company’s latest preliminary financial report. Screening revenue for that period was 61 percent higher than in the last three months of 2018, the report shows. The Madison...
Rogers Behavioral Health is planning a new residential treatment center in Sheboygan. The Oconomowoc-based behavioral health system plans to build a single-story, 12-bed community-based residential facility and a single-story meeting facility for group therapy meetings on a vacant 3-acre property at 1108 S. Wildwood Ave, according to...
Advocate Aurora Health is embarking on what it calls a “bold new strategy” to more than double its annual revenue by 2025 via mergers and acquisitions of health care systems, health insurers and consumer-facing health products. The initiative could transform the largest health care system in Wisconsin...
A private Dallas-based company that’s developing physical rehabilitation hospitals in multiple states proposed a $15 million facility in Greenfield. Nobis Rehabilitation Partners LLC was founded in 2018 and is developing and operating inpatient rehab hospitals, according to its website. The company is targeting projects in 21...