State health officials are urging families to vaccinate their children before the upcoming school year, following the first cases of measles reported in Wisconsin this weekend.
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Participation in Wisconsin apprenticeships is at a record high, according to a new report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
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Health officials urge Wisconsinites to protect themselves from mosquito bites after a man from Barron County recently got sick from West Nile virus.
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Residents in Door County created a grassroots network of composting sites across the peninsula, such that people don’t have to drive more than a few miles to drop their food scraps.
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About five years ago, Shawn Wiederhoeft received a life-changing kidney transplant, and in the process, might have helped change the lives of future transplant recipients.
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A bald eagle that nearly died from a leg injury took flight this summer in northwestern Wisconsin, after it was rehabilitated for nearly a year using a first-of-its-kind cod fish skin graft treatment primarily used in humans.
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A few hundred people gathered at the Wisconsin Capitol on Thursday as part of the latest nationwide protest against President Donald Trump’s administration.
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People in southern Wisconsin could be seeing more fireflies this summer as lifting drought conditions improve habitat for the insects, according to a UW-Madison entomology professor.
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Public Health Madison & Dane County officials recently launched a program to use dating apps and social media to notify people of possible exposure to sexually transmitted infections.
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Families across Wisconsin will soon have better access to a large-scale form of genetic testing to help diagnose infants with rare conditions.
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This spring, Andy Nevitt paddled down the entirety of the Wisconsin River faster than anyone on record, in just 3 days, 20 hours, and 45 minutes.
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