UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health: Wisconsin studies yield new insights on Alzheimer’s disease; presented at international conference

Contact:  Emily Kumlien, ekumlien@uwhealth.org, (608) 265-8199, (608) 516-9154 Madison, Wis. – Hearing loss, highly stressful life events, speech and where you live could all be risk factors for cognitive decline, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison research presented this week at the 2017 Alzheimer’s Association

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Sen. Darling: Governor signs recovery high school bill

Contact: Senator Alberta Darling 1-608-266-5830 Madison – Wisconsin continues to lead in the nationwide battle against opioid abuse.  On Monday, Governor Scott Walker signed 11 bills co-authored by Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) to fight the epidemic. One of those bills

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Senate Republicans to announce budget proposal

With the impasse over the state budget passing the two-week mark, Senate Republicans announced they will release their own proposal Tuesday. A spokeswoman for Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said the document was still being drafted by the Legislative Fiscal

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MCW enrolling doctor of pharmacy program this summer

The Medical College of Wisconsin will be enrolling the inaugural class of its doctor of pharmacy program this summer now that it’s gotten the go-ahead from a national accreditation agency. Its PharmD program was recently granted pre-candidate status by the

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Dave Zweifel: Middle-class jobs may be gone for good

Don’t expect many — if any — of these new positions that Foxconn could bring to Wisconsin to come close to matching the pay and benefits of the manufacturing jobs that built Wisconsin’s and the nation’s middle class, but which are disappearing all too rapidly.

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UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health: Wisconsin studies yield new insights on Alzheimer’s disease; presented at international conference

Contact:  Emily Kumlien, ekumlien@uwhealth.org, (608) 265-8199, (608) 516-9154 Madison, Wis. – Hearing loss, highly stressful life events, speech and where you live could all be risk factors for cognitive decline, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison research presented this week at the 2017 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in London. It’s the largest international meeting

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Sen. Darling: Governor signs recovery high school bill

Contact: Senator Alberta Darling 1-608-266-5830 Madison – Wisconsin continues to lead in the nationwide battle against opioid abuse.  On Monday, Governor Scott Walker signed 11 bills co-authored by Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) to fight the epidemic. One of those bills will create a high school for students dealing with substance

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U.S. Sens. Johnson, Baldwin: Announce agreement on U.S. Marshals Service Nominating Commission, now accepting applications

Contact: Ben Voelkel (Johnson) (202) 228-0071 John Kraus (Baldwin) (202) 224-6225 WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin announced their agreement to establish a Wisconsin U.S. Marshals Service nominating commission. The commission will advise the senators on the nomination of individuals to fill two positions: those of the U.S. marshals for

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Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection: Do your homework for back-to-school shopping success

Contact:  Jerad Albracht, Senior Communications Specialist, 608-224-5007 or Bill Cosh, Communications Director, 608-224-5020 MADISON – Mid-July. Summer sun. Cold drinks. Sandy beaches. 64-packs of crayons. Wake up!  It’s back-to-school shopping season again! Each year this shopping event seems to come earlier, and this summer is no exception.  The shelves are stocked and the newspaper inserts

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Gov. Walker: H.O.P.E. for Wisconsin: Gov. signs three special session bills into law at DC Everest Senior High School

Contact: Tom Evenson, (608) 266-2839 SCHOFIELD – Governor Scott Walker signed three special session bills into law today that are part of the Heroin Opiate Prevention and Education (H.O.P.E.) agenda passed by Wisconsin legislature during a special session. The three bills relate to detecting, treating, and preventing opioid abuse in schools. “In

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Senate Republicans to announce budget proposal

With the impasse over the state budget passing the two-week mark, Senate Republicans announced they will release their own proposal Tuesday. A spokeswoman for Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said the document was still being drafted by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau and declined to release details. Fitzgerald will be joined

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MCW enrolling doctor of pharmacy program this summer

The Medical College of Wisconsin will be enrolling the inaugural class of its doctor of pharmacy program this summer now that it’s gotten the go-ahead from a national accreditation agency. Its PharmD program was recently granted pre-candidate status by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. The MCW School of Pharmacy

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Dave Zweifel: Middle-class jobs may be gone for good

Don’t expect many — if any — of these new positions that Foxconn could bring to Wisconsin to come close to matching the pay and benefits of the manufacturing jobs that built Wisconsin’s and the nation’s middle class, but which are disappearing all too rapidly.

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