Proteins have been the basis of thousands of medicines and they are likely to be the most followed path in attacking disease, according to columnist Ogan Gurel. In this edition of MedTech Futures, Dr. Gurel asserts that the heyday of genetics will likely be a...
The 2008 Milken Institute State Technology and Science index ranks Wisconsin 22nd among the 50 states, up five spots from its 2004 ranking. Wisconsin now is the second ranking Midwestern state, behind only 14th ranked Michigan, in a report that evaluates states on an inventory...
In pre-IPO financial planning, technology and other entrepreneurs should concentrate on three major areas, according to attorney and WTN guest columnist Sverre Roang and Madison area wealth manager Chris Burque. In this second column on IPO financial planning, they advise entrepreneurs to focus on providing...
The Ninth Circuit Court says employers may no longer monitor their employees' text messages without permisison. The court has ruled that the Ontario, Calif. Police Department violated the Stored Communications Act and its employees' privacy rights by inquiring about the content of certain text messages....
Metropolitan Milwaukee ranks 34th nationally in high-tech employment and a disappointing 55th in high-tech job growth, according to the 2008 Cyber Cities report issued by the American Electronics Association. These and other Cyber City numbers have placed added importance on collaborative efforts like the Milwaukee...
Web surfers soon may be riding two very different waves if certain broadband providers pull the trigger on metered charging. If this new business model takes off, no longer will heavy users be paying the same price as everyone else for Internet access, which strikes...
John Wiley, the outgoing chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will serve as director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery on an interim basis, beginning on Nov. 1, 2008. Wiley, who announced his retirement as chancellor earlier this year, will take over for Marsha Mailick...
GE Healthcare has laid off an unspecified number of workers at its Waukesha County facility, citing declining sales for diagnostic imaging products. The company, which employs 3,000 in Waukesha County and 7,000 statewide, will lay off less than 400 people after reporting lower profits in...
Ministry Health Care will implement CattailsMD, an electronic medical record suite developed by the Marshfield Clinic. Cattails, the only provider-developed ambulatory electronic medical record to achieve certification, will enable Ministry's care providers to share access to the records of 2.5 million patients. In landing the...
A family of compounds developed by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor James Cook may someday be used to treat alcohol addiction and other disorders thanks to a license agreement between the UWM Research Foundation and the Wauwatosa biopharmaceutical company MPP Group. The compounds could derive significant...