Month: September 2012

He jumps on his bed, the couch and the stairs. Sometimes, he refuses to leave his room in the morning. He won't bathe unless someone stands outside the bathroom door and encourages him. He'll eat until he's sick unless his food is rationed…Now, his caretakers are confronting a difficult decision. Faced with a 20% cut in the allocation in federal and state aid it receives from the managed care organization that oversees care for Scott Visocky, Creative Community Living Services may have to discharge him. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/5)

Emergency room departments in Milwaukee County are adopting new guidelines that discourage doctors from prescribing narcotic painkillers to patients with chronic pain. The effort is designed to stem a growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse as addiction and fatal overdoses from painkillers have skyrocketed across the country. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/4)

Marquette University expects to begin construction next week on the $16 million expansion of its School of Dentistry. The 45,000-square-foot addition, scheduled to open in the fall of 2013, will enable the school to increase its class size to 100 students, up from 80 now. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 8/31)