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Exact Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, supports recent policy changes that help increase access to recommended non-invasive colorectal cancer screening tests. These policy changes require Medicare and most...

The application deadline for the Main Street Bounceback Grant Program is December 31,2022. All applications must be submitted in a complete and accurate manner to be considered for approval. Incomplete applications and applications missing required supplemental...

Budding entrepreneurs have a broad-based resource they can use to find support and guidance to launch a business—no matter where they are in Wisconsin. Start In Wisconsin is a website designed to help new businesses get off the ground and help existing companies...

Wisconsin Ranks 38th Nationally with Positive per Capita Balance of Payments From a simple economic growth and development perspective, the payment of federal taxes is a leakage from the local or regional economy. As such, these leakages weaken the local or regional...

The Marshfield Clinic Research Institute is spotlighting roadway deaths as a major safety concern for Wisconsin’s agriculture industry. The institute’s National Farm Medicine Center partners with the UW-Madison Division of Extension to produce the Wisconsin Farm...

Nearly three years after hospitals and their workers found themselves on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, Wisconsin hospitals are struggling to address both new and ongoing challenges. Some are ripple effects of COVID-19, while others have emerged as...

Wisconsin’s minority business owners will no longer need to rely on out-of-state technical support. The Wisconsin North Central Minority Supplier Development Council (NCMSDC) has been awarded a $1.61 million grant through the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority...

Nicole Sdao describes herself as a “faith driven entrepreneur.” “I’m a recovering volunteer addict is what I am,” she said. Over the years she had learned the key value of volunteerism, both to the organization that receives the work being done, and the world outside...

An engineering physics team using carbon nanotubes to build armor that’s stronger than Kevlar and a cross-disciplinary team making it less painful to diagnose a debilitating autoimmune disorder have taken top honors from WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation)....

Fast forward 19 months and hundreds of millions in pledged work to expand infrastructure through both public and private dollars, and experts still can't seem to say exactly what the final price tag will be or when full access will be accomplished. That's, in part,...

Millions of Wisconsin residents will be affected by two separate mergers of nonprofit hospital systems that were finalized earlier this month. Gundersen Health System and Bellin Health completed a merger on Dec. 1. The next day, Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium...

From fast-growing companies to organizations effectively supporting the region's innovation economy and placing big bets on its future, the 2022 Fire Award winners are setting Wisconsin's tech scene ablaze. The five winners were selected by three judges: Wisconsin...

A large, population-based study has found cardiac ablation for ventricular tachycardia (VT) procedures is more likely to be performed on patients who are white males from wealthier neighborhoods. Conversely, black women and patients from disadvantaged areas are the...

The National Science Foundation has released its 2021 fiscal year Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) data, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison has again ranked eighth in the national research rankings for public and private universities. UW–Madison...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Alex Vodenlich, president and CEO of Plumb Pharmaceuticals. This Madison-based company recently landed a $500,000 seed investment from the Winnow Fund, also located in Madison. “It’s really the first private...

Young companies in Wisconsin are drawing an increasing amount of financial backing, generating more income and ramping up their hiring. More than 800 companies that received support from WEDC’s entrepreneurship and innovation programs over the past three years...

When former Madison Magazine editor Brennan Nardi started this column in 2016, she called it Startup City. It was a nod to a book with a similar name, as well as feature stories she’d written while tracking local founders who were trying to build a startup ecosystem...

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point unveiled a $10 million gift Thursday, the largest donation in the school's history, which will help the institution elevate the profile of its business school and enroll more students. Sentry Insurance, a 4,800-person business...

Wisconsin’s labor force participation rate dropped to 64.9% in November, an acceleration of a downward trend that stretches back to June, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. The 0.4...