David Wahlberg

In a recently published study, researchers found that the hippocampuses of people from the most highly disadvantaged neighborhoods were 4% smaller than those from more advantaged neighborhoods.

Where you live might affect your brain: Study

January 22, 2020 at 7:53 a.m.

People who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods may have smaller centers of learning and memory in their brains, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison study. In the study, 951 cognitively normal...

Wisconsin has nation’s highest rate of deadly falls among older adults

August 22, 2019 at 10:38 a.m.

Marlene Hellenbrand went to get Christmas decorations from her basement in Waunakee when she fell down the stairs and died at age 74. Jack Kammer of Madison tried to clear...

Wisconsin gun shop owners join effort to prevent suicide

June 9, 2018 at 2:14 a.m.

A sheriff's detective walked into Chuck Lovelace's gun shop in Mount Horeb this spring and delivered unsettling news: A man who had bought a handgun at the shop a few...

Teens not shy about getting breast implants

August 19, 2021 at 11:12 a.m.

In a Rich's-Macy's changing room, Amanda Ross smiles as she squeezes her sinewy body into an orange nylon tank top. "I never could have worn this before," she says, sashaying...

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