In June of 2026, a Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin team completed the state's first robotic kidney transplant — a major advancement in minimally invasive transplant surgery.

AI company leaders are calling for a slowdown as developer from Anthropic resigns and warns of risk to humanity. How are AI researchers in Wisconsin reacting?

Access to affordable food is a growing challenge that doesn’t spare older adults. We examine a Milwaukee County program addressing that problem, one senior diner at a time.

For decades, Hunger Task Force has been in the business of getting food to people in need – including older adults. Chief strategy officer Jonathan Hansen shares how his organization is tackling food access among people 60 and older.

A UW-Madison entomologist answers your wasp-related questions.

Hunger is rising in Wisconsin and there’s not enough emergency food to meet the need.

New research shows that a commonly used measles antibody test may incorrectly suggest that previously vaccinated adults with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are not protected against the disease. Dr. Freddy Caldera, a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, joins Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to reassure patients that they most likely are protected.

As of Sept. 2, there were 110 confirmed cases in Wisconsin. All but one of those sickened are unvaccinated.

A program in Milwaukee gathers excess produce from local farmers' markets, enlists volunteers to chop it up, cooks it into vegetarian meals and delivers them to places like homeless shelters.

UW-Milwaukee's Manfred Olson Planetarium Director Jean Creighton presented at this year's International Planetarium Society conference in Fukuoka, Japan.