A recent survey of nearly 1,000 doctors by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Collaborative for Reproductive Equity puts the statistic at approximately 80 percent. A vast number of them expressed concern “that abortion laws will make it difficult for physicians to offer timely and appropriate care (93 percent) and for patients to receive the care they need (91 percent).”
Collin County is the healthiest county in the state, according to a new report from the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute, which ranks the health of nearly every county in the country.
When the University of Wisconsin broke ground on its renovation of the south end zone of Camp Randall Stadium in November, the goal was for the project to be done by the start of the upcoming football season.
It looks like they’ll meet that goal. Easily.
Bassist Richard Davis, who played with bebop and rock titans alike, lives in Madison, where he started a second act as a beloved teacher himself at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: The adult smoking rate for Black people living in Wisconsin is 30%, or nearly three times higher than white people in the state at 12%. That 18 percentage point disparity is the widest gap between Black and white smokers in the nation, according to Dr. Michael Fiore, co-author and director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
The statistics may give researchers clues about how to reduce those numbers and save lives, Fiore said.
On Friday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order seeking to firm up some abortion protections, including data privacy. According to data experts, the reversal of Roe v. Wade opened up more cracks for sensitive information to fall through.
“The reversal of Roe, the Dobbs decision, just again brought lots and lots of new people to the realization that we don’t actually have much data privacy and that can be a problem,” said Dorothea Salo.
It’s been on the mind of Salo, Distinguished Faculty III at UW Madison’s Information School, before the Roe decision.
“Right now the legal landscape really doesn’t control this,” she said. “Here in Wisconsin, there have been a couple of bipartisan data protection bills in the Senate and the Assembly and they just haven’t gone anywhere.”
Quoted: The moon reaches its closest point to Earth every 27 days, Jennifer Stafford, an astronomy graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said in an interview last month. A full moon occurs every 29½ days.
What makes summer special for moon-gazing, Jim Lattis, director of UW-Madison Space Place said in an interview earlier this summer, is that full moons are lower in the sky. During the summer season, the sun is higher, and the moon is lower, making the moon especially picturesque.
It will appear biggest when it’s lower in the sky, near the horizon — just after rising, or just before setting — due to a scientific phenomenon called “the moon illusion.”
Even before the Supreme Court decision, there was evidence that some people tried to self-manage abortions with things like herbs, physical trauma and uterine trauma, said Jenny Higgins, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Ajay Sethi, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, still works at home, and avoids eating with strangers indoors. He masks in crowded places, but at home, as contractors remodel his bathrooms, he has decided not to—a pivot from last year. His chances of suffering from the virus haven’t changed much; what has is “probably more my own fatigue,” he told me, “and my willingness to accept more risk than before.”
