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Clean Lakes Alliance’s Loop the Lake bike ride
Loop the Lake is Clean Lakes Alliance’s annual bike ride around Lake Monona that highlights our community’s lakes and lakeshore bike paths. Info and tickets here.
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Watch new Zika video from UW-Madison
Watch the new UW-Madison Zika video here.
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Wisconsin State Journal: FluGen starts tests of a new influenza vaccine on humans
Breakthrough research by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, an influenza specialist in the School of Veterinary Medicine and GHI Advisory member, and UW’s Gabriele Neumann is key to a new kind of influenza vaccine that’s starting its first round of human tests.
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Sun Prairie Star: Wisconsin Partnership Program awards grants
The Wisconsin Partnership Program awarded nine grants that will improve health throughout Wisconsin with better nutrition, better maternal care, alcohol reduction and more.
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Nature: Palliative care – The other opioid issue
Pain relief is a human right — but the “war on drugs” has made it difficult to access the powerful pain killers some patients need. GHI’s Jim Cleary provides insight.