Industries

It won't be long before the first 25 students sit behind desks ready to learn at the Medical College of Wisconsin's Green Bay-area campus.

Inter-Med Inc., doing business as Vista Dental Products, plans to move to a new location and nearly double its workforce in Racine.

The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin (AHW) Endowment awarded $250,000 over two years to reduce the prevalence of alcohol and other drug abuse among youth in northwest Wisconsin’s Rusk County. The Medical College of Wisconsin is the steward of the AHW Endowment as it works to catalyze health improvement within the state.

An Aurora Health Care doctor gave a presentation last week in San Diego at the American College of Cardiology's 64th annual scientific session on his research on the effects of testosterone drugs. The study failed to find a connection between testosterone therapy in men and heart problems, contradicting research that prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate its safety.

Five Milwaukee health care organizations are among 57 national finalists for funding grants to support promising community-based work on health improvement.

Brookfield-based Connecture Inc., a provider of web-based information systems used to create health insurance marketplaces, is inviting health insurers to join them on Thursday for an interactive webinar.

From now until April 30, the Health Insurance Marketplace is providing individuals and families who owe a fee for not having coverage in 2014 with one last chance to get covered for 2015.

The Milwaukee-based BloodCenter of Wisconsin is teaming up with the Milwaukee Bucks to host the 15th annual Milwaukee Bucks Blood Drive. The drive will be held on Monday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, 1001 N. 4th St., Milwaukee.

Mequon-based Concordia University Wisconsin is preparing to launch a new Massive Open Online Course for its nursing program through its office of continuing and distance education. According to CUW, the MOOC is designed to help registered nurses without an advanced degree get additional training, specifically writing skills, essential within their field.

Aurora Health Care recently discovered it was the target of a cyber-attack that affected some of its workstations and servers. The malware was designed to capture login information used on mostly financial websites and some social media sites, but Aurora chief communications officer Mike Brophy said there is no evidence that the malware accessed any health or insurance information of employees or patients.