To counteract the flu and approaching winter season, Repairers of the Breach will provide free flu vaccinations for homeless and impoverished Milwaukeeans. Free Flu Shot Days have been scheduled … [Read more...]
Go Red For Women™ Campaign features Milwaukee woman
Kimberly Montgomery chosen to spread awareness of heart disease and stroke By Lynda L. Jones Each year the American Heart Association seeks out women from across the nation to act as the faces … [Read more...]
Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin to Study the Genetics of Type 1 Diabetes
The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute received a four-year, $4.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of … [Read more...]
Get the Facts: The importance of mammography in the community
According to the American Cancer Society, African Americans have the highest death rate of any racial and ethnic group in the United States for most cancers. In 2011, in fact, the American Cancer … [Read more...]
Early breast cancer screening for Wisconsin women
Many women still don’t get screened; October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month While the number of breast cancer deaths in Wisconsin continues to show a small decline, state health officials … [Read more...]
Medicare Open Enrollment Period begins
The Medicare Open Enrollment Period -- which began on Monday, October 15 – has been expanded to last seven weeks and will end on December 7. This will give seniors and people with disabilities more … [Read more...]
Working together to save babies
Nicole Angresano Vice President, Community Impact United Way of Greater Milwaukee Every year, Milwaukee families suffer the unimaginable loss of a baby before his or her first birthday. This … [Read more...]
Prevention is better than problem solving
By Maricha Harris It’s no secret. Teen pregnancy and poverty are interconnected. In fact, three major predictors of a child’s likeliness to live in poverty are 1) being born to a teen mother, 2) … [Read more...]
Hundreds of students get dental checks
The Marquette University School of Dentistry was a busy place on their annual Head Start Dental Day. Volunteer dentists as well as dental and dental hygiene students from Marquette and MATC examined … [Read more...]
You can – and must – talk
By Nicole Angresano Vice president Community Impact United Way of Greater Milwaukee My son is 5 years old. Well, 5 ¾, actually—he’s at an age where every extra month counts. He is the cherry on … [Read more...]
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