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The Oneida County Health Department hosted a meeting Wednesday night at James Williams Middle School in Rhinelander. Representatives from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and Department of Natural Resources gave updates to the PFAS situation in Stella and answered questions from the audience.
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Research and interest in the condition has expanded as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Aspirus Health Polysomnographic Technologist Rebecca Wagner says the one-hour shift can effect sleep patterns
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Wisconsin faces a big staffing shortage of registered nurses. Advocates hope for key solutions to bear fruit amid unease about the emergence of for-profit nursing colleges
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WXPR’s Hannah Davis-Reid spoke with Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany of Minocqua about the legislation, as well as a transgender anti-violence advocate opposed to the bill.
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Decades’ worth of toxic "forever chemicals" are sitting in landfills, presenting a new contaminant for waste handlers who didn’t create the pollution, but now find themselves awash in it. A few companies are trying to filter PFAS out of their leachate, and researchers are studying whether it might escape from trash into the air.
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Assisted living promises more independence than nursing homes, but it carries risks: fewer protections for seniors who run out of savings.
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The Quit Line has sent a free two-week starter kit of nicotine patches, lozenges, or gum to eligible tobacco users for some time. Now, for a limited time, the Quit Line will offer eight weeks of free medication.
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Leadership and outreach teams from the VA Medical Center will be travelling around northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula starting next week.They’ll be hosting nine Veteran Town Halls between March 5-7.
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Wisconsin doctors say the state could help save lives by extending postpartum Medicaid coverage to a full year, as many states offer. But the Legislature again blocked an extension.
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A new report contended only one in three people with commercial health insurance and a mental health condition is able to find proper mental health care
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Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn a 174-year-old state law that conservatives have interpreted as an abortion ban. The organization filed a petition Thursday asking the high court to find the law unconstitutional without letting any lower courts rule first.