After years of opposition to any form of marijuana legalization in Wisconsin, Republican lawmakers are now working privately to build support for a medical marijuana program that could win bipartisan backing and be enacted into law later this year.
Category: Health & Welfare
Posted inHealth & Welfare
Six-week waits, one counselor for eight rural districts: These are some of the hurdles facing youth mental health
Families and schools alike are scrambling to get the mental health care their children need to thrive. Providers are stretched thin. What’s going on?
Posted inHealth & Welfare
State of Wisconsin ends free in-person COVID-19 testing
But free at-home tests remain available through “Say Yes! Covid Test” and the federal government.
Posted inHealth & Welfare
Nonprofits in Wisconsin and elsewhere scramble for volunteers
As pandemic-related government aid programs end and inflation rises, nonprofits of all kinds are looking everywhere and trying everything to get volunteers.
Posted inHealth & Welfare, Justice & Safety
Whistleblower claims Milwaukee doctor performed unneeded surgeries
Complaint says Aurora St. Luke’s Dr. Scott Kamelle endangered patients — and drove up costs — with extra surgeries and a product not OK’d for internal use
Posted inEnvironment, Health & Welfare
PFAS are in rain jackets, hiking pants, shirts and other clothing. Here’s what to know.
There could be more than just fashion risks involved when buying a pair of leggings or a raincoat.
Posted inHealth & Welfare
As one in eight kids go hungry and schools struggle to feed kids, Wisconsin has a chance to turn the tables
The end of free lunch leaves families struggling to feed their kids and nutrition departments under-funded as they navigate families who can’t pay.
Posted inHealth & Welfare
When college athletes take their own lives, healing the team becomes the next goal
In the weeks after Stanford University soccer goalie Katie Meyer, 22, died by suicide last March, her grieving teammates were inseparable even when not training.
Posted inEconomy, Health & Welfare
High child care costs, low accessibility leads to smaller Wisconsin families
Unaffordable child care means, Wisconsin parents work less, earn less and stress more.
Posted inHealth & Welfare
After people on Medicaid die, states including Wisconsin aggressively seek repayment
Wisconsin’s ‘estate recovery program’ recouped more than $31 million in the 2019 fiscal year
Posted inHealth & Welfare
A bitter battle over the ‘orphan drug’ program leaves patients’ pocketbooks at risk
A prescription drug that helps Lore Wilkinson walk and talk despite a rare muscle disease cost her so little for more than a decade that she didn’t even use her insurance to pay for it.
Posted inHealth & Welfare
Safety concerns mount at Milwaukee County’s Granite Hills psychiatric hospital
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services flagged several violations, and dozens of calls to West Allis police concerned patients assaulting other patients or staff.