Health Care

BizTimes Media launched the BizTimes Health Care Weekly e-newsletter on Wednesday.

The implementation of the Affordable Care Act means many Wisconsinites will be signing up for insurance on the newly established marketplaces.

Stop here for this week's health care news links from around the state.

Thanks to a $250,000 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Endece Neural, a subsidiary company of Mequon-based drug discovery company Endece LLC, is forging ahead with preclinical research of a drug compound that it believes could revolutionize treatment options for people living with multiple sclerosis (MS).

The latest Marquette Law School Poll was released on Tuesday, shedding light on Wisconsinite’s views on health care reform and the state’s implementation of the law.

Former governor of Florida Jeb Bush is this year’s keynote speaker for the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Digestive Disease Center 2013 Healthcare Dinner.

The Medical College of Wisconsin’s (MCW) Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program (HWPP) will fund nine new community health projects totaling $2.3 million.

Waukesha-based ProHealth Care has announced it has hired Nora Sale to lead the ProHealth Care Foundation.

Milwaukee-based Assurant health has notified employees that approximately 108 positions are being eliminated by the end of the year, 65 of which are at the Milwaukee office.

The BizTimes Health Care Weekly e-newsletter will be launched Wednesday, Oct. 30.
The new newsletter will be sent free to subscribers. It will be sent out every Wednesday afternoon.