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MILWAUKEE – The Business Health Care Group (BHCG) has received a $25,000 grant from NOVO Nordisk to increase the number of area physicians recognized in diabetic care and management by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The grant will allow the BHCG to assist member physicians in its high performance network in achieving recognition for delivering care according...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com When WPS Resources announced during the summer that it planned to buy Illinois’ problem-plagued Peoples Energy for nearly $1.6 billion, executives were hoping for quick regulatory approval. It isn’t turning out that way, though officials at Green Bay-based WPS Resources remain optimistic. To date, only the Federal Trade Commission has signed off on the deal. To be...

Below is an excerpt from the most recent edition of WisBusiness Tuesday Trends, a WisBusiness product previously available only to paid subscribers. This weekly look at the state of Wisconsin business is now available for free to anyone who signs up for the Tuesday Trends mailing list. To get the full version of Tuesday Trends in your inbox every week,...

By Tracy Will WisBusiness.com "We are under attack," were the words Wisconsin Alumni Research Association Director Carl Gulbrandsen used to open his talk at the UW Law School Friday night. Gulbrandsen spoke in grave terms about the prospect of losing the Bayh/Dole bill, legislation that enables the conversion of federally funded research into innovative scientific products and procedures. The speech was sponsored...

MILWAUKEE -- A homegrown employment and recruitment processing firm in Brookfield (Pinstripe LLC) and a life sciences company that moved to the Madison area from Chicago (Caden Biosciences Inc.) will share the stage with lead investors the Nov. 13 Milwaukee meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network.   Susan Marks, CEO of Pinstripe, and Bill Checovich, president and CEO of Caden Biosciences,...