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With workplace bullying on the rise, developing respect, service and safety on the job is critical MILWAUKEE, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- There are many names for it: bullying, incivility, disrespect, psychological abuse, and emotional harassment. No matter what it's called, the results are the same -- time lost from work, unhappy employees, medical claims, legal fees, and ultimately, dissatisfied...

Merge responds to customer requests for ways to enhance quality and boost radiology group productivity MILWAUKEE, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Merge Technologies Incorporated, d.b.a. Merge Healthcare, (NASDAQ:MRGE) (TSX: MRG.), a leading medical imaging software and services provider, today announced the introduction of a new teleradiology software application, Merge TeleRead(TM), and an innovative service offering, Consult PreReads(TM). A Consult PreRead...

Madison – The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) will host its annual multifamily housing conference at Madison’s Alliant Energy Center Exhibition Hall on November 27. The economic development authority expects this year’s “Building Blocks for a Better Wisconsin” conference to be its largest multifamily conference ever.   The conference, which addresses issues affecting the progress of multifamily developments throughout...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON - The key to a vibrant downtown is making people believe it is the “living room” of a community, according to Kirk Watson, a former mayor of Austin, Texas. “And a strong downtown can help tie a whole region together and help make it strong,” said Watson, speaking at the recent Downtown Madison...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – State leaders reacted positively Tuesday to news of a breakthrough in stem cell technology by UW-Madison scientists that may eliminate ethical objections because it does not require the destruction of human embryos to create self-replicating cells. Several said the advance – which came out of the lab run by stem cell pioneer Jamie...

MADISON - When University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers succeeded in reprogramming skin cells to behave like embryonic stem cells, they also began to redefine the political and ethical dynamics of the stem-cell debate, a leading bioethicist says.R. Alta Charo, a UW-Madison professor of law and bioethics, says the scientific finding could have far-reaching effects on the social dimensions of the...

Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed inOctober. Overall, 22 states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 17 states registered decreases, and11 states had no changes, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Depart-ment of Labor reported today.  Over the year, jobless rates were down in 25 states and the District of...

MADISON - In a paper to be published Nov. 22 in the online edition of the journal Science, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reports the genetic reprogramming of human skin cells to create cells indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells.The finding is not only a critical scientific accomplishment, but potentially remakes the tumultuous political and ethical landscape of...