by Courtney Degen | Mar 21, 2022 | Science + Technology
Dane County has joined a nationwide relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions, but the immunocompromised and their doctors worry the absence of guidelines puts those with vulnerable immune systems at increased risk. Dr. Jeannina Smith, medical director of the Transplant...
by Ariel Gans | Mar 21, 2022 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Erinn Baldeschwiler has been battling stage four metastatic breast cancer for two years. Two months after her diagnosis, the 50-year-old writer and patient advocate began immunotherapy. But in October, her cancer became treatment-resistant and she...
by Quinn Clark | Mar 18, 2022 | Education
Angela Harris is a first-grade teacher at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, a public Black immersion school in Milwaukee, and one of the first six activists in residence for the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN). Harris said her activism, which has...
by Quinn Clark | Mar 18, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Environmental activist and singer-songwriter Carole King criticized the U.S. Forest Service’s use of logging as a way to combat wildfires at a House hearing Wednesday, saying that logging operations contribute to carbon emissions. “I...
by Catherine Buchaniec | Mar 18, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-Brunswick, called on the Senate this week to pass comprehensive legislation expanding health care access for U.S. service members and veterans exposed to toxic burn pits while deployed at overseas military bases....
by Katherine Huggins | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, Politics
Ron Wyden pulled a Humira “pen” out of his shirt pocket and held it up. “As of 2020, the price per pen in Quebec, Canada was $563,” he said about the popular treatment for arthritis and other conditions. “List price in the U.S. was...
