Recently Johnson Controls Inc. found itself in the midst of a public relations nightmare. A routine pre-kindergarten health check had found elevated levels of lead in the blood of 21 children who were living in a community 700 meters away from its Shanghai battery factory.

The earliest accounts of the manual wheelchair exist in documents from the sixth century. Surprisingly, the model used back then doesn't look too much different than the one that wheelchair-bound individuals use today. For Jim Maerzke, president of Kenosha-based Procubed LLC, that is a concern and one he hopes to correct with the company's Linear to Rotary Motion (LRM) conversion mechanism.

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. announced recently that it plans to tear down a 16-story office building on its downtown Milwaukee campus. The company plans to replace the building, but has not made specific plans.

Many American corporations are compiling record profits and generating record returns for their investors.

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) and its Council of Small Business Executives (COSBE) recently named the "Fastest Five" growing companies of its 2011 Future 50 award winners. They are:

In the days after the death of Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. co-founder and one of the world's most iconic and influential innovators and business leaders, many reflected in awe of his accomplishments.

IBM's latest challenge project, Watson, astounded millions of Jeopardy! game show fans earlier this year when it defeated two of the show's most successful players. Now, one of the nation's largest health benefits companies, Indianapolis-based Wellpoint Inc., has licensed the technology from IBM for its first commercial applications within the country's health care system.

The Business Health Care Group, a benefits coalition group of Milwaukee area employers formed to help drive down the cost of health care in the region, recently discontinued its coverage for all Columbia St. Mary's facilities in southeastern Wisconsin and has added the Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare system to the exclusive Humana Preferred Network.

New regulations issued in August, part of the federal health care reform law, will require employers' health benefits plans to cover several women's preventive care services – including contraception – for health plans starting next year.

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