Selling natural gas that’s produced in the La Crosse County landfill has become a steady source of income for the county. The methane used to be...
Opioids, normal saline, antibiotics and more are in short supply at hospitals around the country, including Wisconsin. A drug shortage, which started in 2011, has peaked...
A recent survey shows 54 percent of physicians are burned out at work. The Stanford University study surveyed 6,695 doctors, showing symptoms of burnout from extreme...
It’s returning to its roots. Gundersen Health System in La Crosse has announced it will be purchasing part of the Wettstein’s building at the corner of...
A local emergency room doctor is skeptical about a study that seems to favor legalizing marijuana. The study, recently put out by the journal JAMA Internal...
The government crackdown on opioids might be having an unintended consequence. Hospitals are now having issues supplying drugs like fentanyl and dilaudid, used during surgeries and...
It’s a busy time of year for the workers ambulances. Winter, of course, leads to several accidents. But, what happens when an ambulance crashes racing to...
Crushed by the numbers of questions to nurse advisers have taken on the flu, Gundersen Health System in La Crosse has turned to an automated influenza...
Pregnant women affected by opiate abuse was the focus of the Wisconsin Heroin Task Force this month. OBGYN Charles Schauberger of Gundersen Health System in La...
Losing weight might be the most popular new year’s resolution. If that’s the case, and it’s something new, the advice is to start with small goals...
It was a big $100,000 check, both literally and figuratively. The pledge from Gundersen Health System in La Crosse will be spread out over three years...
TOMAH, Wis. — As part of the brand new Gundersen Health System clinic being built in Tomah, it will include a comprehensive cancer center. Construction will begin...
AMA changed treatment parameters to 130/80
Gundersen doctor says give it time
Second year La Crosse hospital has been honored by AAMN
Cases could be related to private event in August
Over 2,000 hospitals were judged
State hasn’t been off Top 10 since report started in 2007
Facility, which cost around $10 million, will have 68 rooms.
The feds appear to be making the right moves regarding the use of antibiotics. At least it seems that way to infectious disease preventionist...