Magazines

Advertising & Public Relations Brenda Bickel-Bonds joined Integré, Waukesha, as a copywriter. Prior to joining Integré, Bickel-Bonds served...

They may have a feeding tube. They may be attached to a machine that breathes for them, unable to communicate. They may be 2 months old or 10 years old.

Regardless of their individual condition, Kathleen Timm is by their side. She has dedicated her heart and love to sick children for 25 years.

Timm has three children who are married and have families of their own. They remind her of how blessed she is.

“I get to come home,” says Timm, who is a private duty nurse for Horizon Home Care & Hospice Inc. in Brown Deer. “The parents are still behind me taking care of that child.”

If you haven’t started your budgeting and planning process for 2007, and your fiscal year is aligned with the...

It’s another cool, crisp autumn morning, and Lori Banker- Horner is up before daybreak. She rises early to prepare herself mentally for the day to come.

She cooks breakfast for her three children, Daniel, Julia and Billy. She smiles at them as she makes French toast – their favorite.

Ring-ring. Banker-Horner knowingly looks toward the phone. It’s time to resume fighting where she left off earlier this morning. She often doesn’t get much sleep. Her job requires her to be on-call 24/7.

Question: I read your column in the Nov. 10 issue of Small Business Times and enjoyed it. The “ARMED”...

Dr. Ian Gilson, a clinical physician, is one of the top AIDS doctors in the Milwaukee area.

Gilson says he learned a valuable listen early on in his practice. One of his first AIDS patients was dying from pneumonia. The patient had previously made it clear that he didn’t want anything done to resuscitate him. He wanted Gilson to let him die.

When we are stressed out, we tend to deal with it in unhealthy ways, like comfort eating, making other...

Dr. Beth Ann Drolet of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin pioneered a new center to research and develop treatment for a fairly common occurrence in babies that can have a deadly outcome if allowed to grow.

A few months after Kayleigh Ali was born, her mother, Nicole, noticed Kayleigh’s stomach seemed enlarged and felt hard to the touch. Kayleigh’s pediatrician repeatedly assured the family that she was fine.

However, in January 2005, an X-ray revealed that the eight- month- old had tumors on her liver.

The rapidly growing tumors were non-cancerous masses of blood vessels, called hemangiomas.

The ergonomic chair is no longer just for the executive in the corner office. New technologies with work stations...

Dr. Patricia Safavi begins her morning with her own three children before venturing to Next Door Pediatrics to spend the rest of the day with other people’s children. She’s a doctor who is devoted to the simple, but sometimes altruistic notion that everyone who needs health care should receive it, even if they are low in income and have no insurance.

“I got into pediatric care to have an effect on prevention,” Patricia says. “Having families raise their children rather than try to solve problems on the back end from less than-optimal resources.”