From the very beginning of the COVID pandemic, its impact on mental health drew intense interest making ‘resilience’ a national buzzword.
Author: Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin investigates mysterious hepatitis cases in 4 children, including one who died
Four children in Wisconsin have come down with mysterious hepatitis cases. There’s estimated to be a total of 19 cases in the U.S. and 200 worldwide.
Medical specialists perform risky brain surgery on a Wisconsin bonobo, most related species to humans
In an effort to save an endangered bonobo’s life, Wisconsin doctors would buck the odds and perform a rarely successful brain surgery.
Wisconsin researchers link chimpanzee-killing disease to new species of bacterium. They worry now that it will jump to humans.
Although the chimpanzee illness has yet to be found in a human being, the two species share about 99% of their hereditary material, or DNA.
Home for Christmas: In 1988, a surgeon sewed a new heart into a cowboy. Nearly 31 years later, he did it again.
Chuck Newman took good care of his transplanted heart, but after 31 years, it wore out. He turned to a familiar surgeon — and his son — to save him.
Turned down for federal disability payments, thousands die waiting for appeals to be heard
In fiscal year 2017, 10,002 Americans stuck on the appeals backlog for Social Security Disability Insurance died waiting for a response.