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Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bills on Holocaust Education, PTSD, and Fede...

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Today, Wisconsin’s state assembly met to vote on a slew of bills. The first two bills, one which set aside money to help soldiers with PTSD and another to require that the holocaust be taught in middle school and high school, passed with unanimous support. Then the assembly spent hours discussing a series of bills […]

Meriter Hospital Union Says it May File Notice of Strike

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Photo by Sasint on Pixabay. “They’ve been calling us heroes,” said Pat Raes, a nurse at Meriter Hospital who serves as the bargaining co-chair for the Meriter Hospital nurse’s union. “We feel like martyrs sometimes.” She says nurses have been negotiating with hospital management to change the workers’ contract.  Raes said that the desire for […]

Wisconsin Health Literacy

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Google receives 1 billion searches for health information a day.  People are searching online for their health information but where do they go from their searches? What websites are reliable?  Once you get the information, how do you check for credibility? Everyone can experience low health literacy – the ability to understand information about […]

Nursing Homes and COVID-19

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Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine changes direction, at least a little bit, from our typical science-related topics. But it does relate to the coronavirus. Why were nursing homes hit so hard by COVID-19? Our guest is Barbara Bowers, professor and associate dean for research in the School of Nursing at UW-Madison. With some background and […]

Radio Chipstone: Rapid Response Collecting Project

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According to the World Health Organization, it’s been over a year since the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province.  In March, the World Health Organization, concerned about the rapid spread and mortality rate, characterized what we now know as the Coronavirus/COVID-19 as a pandemic. One recommendation […]

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