Four cases of E.coli investigated in DuPage County, IL
Posted: 7:45 PM WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — Health officials in DuPage County are investigating a possible connection between four confirmed cases of E. coli infection.
Posted: 7:45 PM WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — Health officials in DuPage County are investigating a possible connection between four confirmed cases of E. coli infection.
Updated: 4:37 PM UPDATE: The Wisconsin Assembly has approved a bill that would outlaw abortions based on the fetus' sex.
Posted: 10:19 AM Newly-released figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show Wisconsin's senior population continues to grow.
Updated: 8:51 AM Women can now get medication-induced abortions at Wisconsin clinics after a Dane County judge blocked a recent state law from restricting that procedure.
Posted: 1:39 PM The leaders of four major health insurance companies in Wisconsin say the roll out of new private market exchanges under the federal health care law will be filled with uncertainty and horror stories.
Updated: 9:09 AM UPDATE: Six health groups have united against a provision in the Wisconsin state budget that would prohibit local communities from banning sugary foods and drinks.
Updated: 10:41 PM The federal government has told a New York judge it will reverse course and take steps to comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions.
Updated: 3:08 PM UPDATE: Planned Parenthood says it would close its Appleton abortion facility if a new bill affecting abortion policies gets signed into law.
Posted: 12:17 PM UPDATE: Green Bay Packers Coach Mike McCarthy and his wife Jessica raised $325,000 for the American Family Children's Hospital as part of the 4th annual McCarthy Golf Tournament.
Updated: 9:02 AM Heroin-overdose deaths have surpassed cocaine fatalities in Milwaukee County, and a similar trend is playing out elsewhere in southeastern Wisconsin.
Updated: 10:57 PM Marquette University is partnering with the Milwaukee VA Medical Center to help fill the growing need for nurses at Veterans Affairs hospitals.
Updated: 2:54 PM Health care advocates and recipients of Wisconsin's BadgerCare benefits are calling on the Legislature's budget committee to accept a federally funded Medicaid expansion.
Posted: 10:13 AM A new study suggests that the cost of expanding health care coverage could be softened by the money saved from fewer high-cost hospital stays.
Updated: 3:37 AM UPDATE: Republican legislative leaders say they have reached agreement on public school funding, expanding private school vouchers and cutting income taxes.
Posted: 12:17 PM Actor Michael Douglas' comments about throat cancer have thrown a spotlight on cancer risks from a sexually spread virus.
Posted: 11:04 AM Researchers have found that gene flaws that raise the risk of breast cancer in black women may be behind more cases of the disease in black woman than previously thought.
Updated: 11:54 AM UPDATE: A state legislative panel is scheduled to hear a couple of bills on Wednesday that would make it harder and more expensive to get an abortion in Wisconsin.
Posted: 10:47 AM An assisted living company is giving up control of most of its properties after racking up $100,000 in state fines related to deaths and injuries of residents.
Posted: 10:40 AM At least one Wisconsin health insurance company says it won't participate in the new federal insurance exchanges in development as part of the Affordable Care Act, and others are keeping their plans quiet.
Posted: 10:22 PM A Neenah man who needs a kidney transplant is using a highway billboard to try to find a potential donor.
Updated: 10:10 AM An elementary school principal has inspired the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create a new wheelchair lift that could help make more places wheelchair accessible.
Updated: 12:09 PM Ministry Health Care plans to lay off several hundred employees, citing a drop in the number of patients and cuts in federal reimbursement levels.
Updated: 1:46 PM Government workers in Wisconsin would have to be offered a high-deductible health insurance plan with a health savings account under a proposal to be voted on Tuesday.
Updated: 1:42 PM UPDATE: State workers who smoke would have to pay $50 more per month for health insurance under a Gov. Scott Walker proposal that has won approval by the Legislature's budget committee.
Posted: 5:21 PM The cost of Gov. Scott Walker's plan to reject federally funded Medicaid expansion and instead tighten income eligibility for the program has gone up.