With more than half of the state’s public health work force over the age of 50, Wisconsin needs an accredited school of public health to train tomorrow’s workers. And because Milwaukee’s public health needs are so great, the school should be located here, where some of the critical building blocks for such a school already exist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a report to be released today concludes.
Establishing a school of public health at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee would take six to eight years and require about $10 million in annual funding, according to a report released Thursday.
The report – done by representatives from UWM, the City of Milwaukee and the UW System – outlines steps for UWM to take and recommends that the Board of Regents endorse the proposal.
Renovar Inc., a fledgling Madison-based company focused on the development of kidney disease diagnostics, announced that it has raised $1.22 million in funding.
The financing round, the UW-Madison spin-off’s second, brings the total capital raised by the company to $3.2 million.
Implanting a small spacer between lumbar vertebrae during a procedure called interspinous process decompression may be an effective and minimally invasive way to treat spinal stenosis, according to a new report.
Implanting a small spacer between lumbar vertebrae during a procedure called interspinous process decompression may be an effective and minimally invasive way to treat spinal stenosis, according to a new report.
Continuing a series of informative conventions and lectures for World AIDS Week, the Student Global AIDS Campaign sponsored a lecture by University of Wisconsin experts in AIDS-related pharmacy and law Wednesday evening.
With exam week on the frontier and study time mounting for University of Wisconsin students, some will be relying on more than soda and coffee to get them through long nights at the library.
By LAURIE KELLMAN, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The same embryonic stem cell bill that prompted President Bush’s only veto is headed to his desk again, this time from Democrats who have it atop their agenda when they take control of Congress in January.
It’s uncertain whether supporters of the measure can muster enough votes to override another veto.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison hopes to land a new high-security federal lab where scientists would help lead the nation’s research on deadly animal diseases. The lab would be operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Scientists at the new lab would study foreign animal diseases that could harm agriculture if spread in the United States. They would also study bird flu, anthrax, SARS and other pathogens that can spread from animals to people and that have become bioterrorism concerns.
Hoping to send a warning to organ transplant centers nationwide, the federal government said Tuesday that it would pull funding from two heart programs that failed to meet its minimum performance standards. A third center agreed under pressure to forgo federal money.
….The University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Transplant Program was not on the Los Angeles Times list.
Madison residents and members of the Sierra Club delivered 700 postcards to University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley Tuesday in an effort to encourage the university to take steps toward building a more energy-efficient campus.
WiSys Technology Foundation and Marshfield Clinic announced plans last week for the two organizations to partner up in their medical research efforts.
Dear Editor: The Charter Street Power Plant is literally a black smudge on the University of Wisconsin. Our progressive reputation, innovative ideals and the health of students and residents are compromised by this embarrassing piece of dirty and archaic technology that sits in the middle of campus.
Quoted: Dr. Tamara Hagen, a UW Health cardiologist.
Since I became dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health on July 1, no issue has received more of my attention than the relationship between the school and the Milwaukee community and our role in addressing the health care needs of its underserved populations. A column by Robert Golden.
Dear Editor: The University of Wisconsin is one of 14 competitors for the new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, intended to replace the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
….The proper place for such a dangerous lab is an island or similarly isolated location, not Dane County.
A year ago, bird flu was in the news nearly every day. The drumbeat of a pandemic threat was growing louder. Health officials hurried preparation plans.
Today, bird flu seems more like the punchline of a joke.
But experts say it remains just as dangerous ââ?¬â? and just as able to cause a worldwide outbreak of flu like none seen since 1918, when as many as 50 million people died.
ââ?¬Å?The reality is this virus is continuing to spread,ââ?¬Â said Christopher Olsen, a virologist at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. ââ?¬Å?Itââ?¬â?¢s continuing to infect birds. Itââ?¬â?¢s continuing to kill human beings.ââ?¬Â
Stephanie Miller had bypass surgery, and doctors twice propped her clogged arteries open with stents.
Still, the 54-year-old Madison woman’s heart deteriorated. Her cardiologist said she risked an early death.
Miller, not willing to give up, sought help far away: She traveled to Thailand for an experimental stem-cell therapy.
MADISON, Wis. — Two families are going through a “paired exchange” organ transplant that is only the second of its kind at University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital.
In a paired exchange, one family donates an organ to another family, and, in return, that family donates one of their organs to help the first family.
Clarence Delwiche, of Janesville, and Michael Pasco, of Lake Linden, Mich., both spend four hours a day, three days a week on dialysis.
The University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics has a new CEO, David Entwistle, who is now serving as senior vice president and chief operating officer at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics.
MADISON, Wis. — A new program at the UW aims to address the growing shortage of doctors in rural areas of the state.
The School of Medicine and Public Health’s program will place doctors-in-training at clinics in rural areas.
The school’s associate dean Byron Crouse said 33 percent of Wisconsin residents live in rural areas but only 11 percent of doctors practice there.
Congratulations to everyone involved in the 2006 Wisconsin CowParade!
The corporate sponsors gave so many talented artists the opportunity to create wonderful creatures that the entire community has enjoyed over the past few months. The attendees and bidders at Friday’s auction provided tremendous support for the American Family Children’s Hospital and other area nonprofits groups.
Leticia Carranza, who was putting her son in a car seat for infants even though he had outgrown it, got a larger seat worth $40 for free.
Jeff Walker, a UW-Madison scientist, got nearly $1 million to buy mass spectrometers to study proteins.
Both benefited from the Wisconsin Partnership Program, a $300 million fund at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health designed to improve the health of state residents.
MADISON ââ?¬â? A new program at the University of Wisconsin will immerse medical students in rural practices in an attempt to curb the shortage of physicians in those areas.The School of Medicine and Public Healthââ?¬â?¢s four-year program will parallel the schoolââ?¬â?¢s standard doctor curriculum, but use a network of clinical partnerships to address the need.
La Crosse County ranks pretty well in a study of health outcomes by the University of Wisconsin�s School of Medicine and Public Health.
A new program at the University of Wisconsin is aimed at alleviating a severe shortage of physicians in rural areas of the state.
The School of Medicine and Public Health is starting a four-year program that will parallel the school’s standard M.D. curriculum but that will also use a network of clinical partnerships across Wisconsin to immerse medical students in rural practice.
High marks for education and physical activity and a low number of fatal motor vehicle crashes helped La Crosse County remain the 16th-healthiest county in Wisconsin in a statewide report.
Florence County was rated the state�s healthiest in the report, released Thursday by the Wisconsin Public Health and Health Policy Institute in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher is part of a team that has identified changes in two viral building blocks called amino acids that allow the bird flu virus to recognize human flu virus receptors in people’s cells.
The two amino acid changes “can be used as a genetic marker for predicting a potential dangerous virus,” Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a flu researcher at UW’s School of Veterinary Medicine, said of their study published in today’s edition of the journal Nature.
A UW-Madison researcher has identified a molecular warning sign that might enable the bird flu virus to become more problematic in people.
….For those of us with terminally ill relatives who must shuttle our loved ones to and from hospital care, the valet service, while not perfect, is one of the few bright spots as we daily grieve for what is to come. How much easier it is on us to have someone take care of this one detail to give caretakers and those they care for a brief respite.
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities said they have located a missing man who escaped on Monday night while being taken to the psychiatric unit at University of Wisconsin Hospital.
Joseph Mercer, 31, was being held in protective custody and allegedly pushed a deputy away while getting out of the transport vehicle. Authorities said that Mercer ran off in handcuffs and waist restraints into the Shorewood Hills and Eagle Heights area.
A 19-year-old UW-Madison student jumped to his death from the top of a downtown parking ramp Tuesday afternoon.
While the rest of the University of Wisconsin campus was going about yesterday like any other day ââ?¬â? attending class, studying at the library and going to work ââ?¬â? a fellow Badgerââ?¬â?¢s life came to an abrupt end.
An institutionalized schizophrenic escaped the custody of Sauk County authorities Monday night, and he may now be roaming the University of Wisconsin campus, according to UW Police.
Authorities are asking people to look out for a handcuffed man who got away from them en route to University Hospital, but said he is not known to be violent.
The man, Joseph J. Mercer, bolted Monday evening while Sauk County deputies were taking him to the psychiatric ward at University Hospital. Despite a waist restraint and handcuffs, he was able to push a deputy away, get out of a police vehicle and flee to the Shorewood Hills/Eagle Heights area.
MADISON, Wis. — UW police are warning the public to be on the lookout for a man who escaped from Sauk County Authorities.
Police say Sauk County deputies were transporting Joseph J. Mercer, 31, to the UW Hospital psychiatric unit when he escaped.
Researchers at UW-Madison have discovered a new drug that may prevent human influenza infectionsââ?¬â?including avian influenza strains that are capable of launching a flu pandemic.
CowParade Wisconsin raised more than $363,500 for a new University of Wisconsin hospital at an auction Friday, turning profits from the temporary, colorful cow display into a permanent part of campus.
Dear Editor: Attention Donna Sollenberger, president and CEO, University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics.
Please get your priorities in order. You are in the health care industry, not the valet parking business.
It’s been an eventful year for Gilda’s Club of Madison.
In July, Sara Sinaiko became chief executive officer of the cancer support organization’s local chapter.
And last month the group, which was started in honor of actress and comedian Gilda Radner after she died of ovarian cancer, got a big boost in the form of capital contributions.
Nurse Julie Thao worked a double shift on July 4, stayed overnight at the hospital and then started work early in the morning on the day she allegedly made a medication error that caused the death of a 16-year-old giving birth at St. Mary’s Hospital, according to sources close to Thao.
….St. Mary’s officials said in an interview earlier this year that overtime is used only on a voluntary basis….New union contracts at Meriter Hospital and University Hospital bar mandatory overtime except during emergency situations such as natural disasters or epidemics.
A herd of cows found new homes Friday night, and it turns out many of them will be staying in the same towns in which they grazed for the past several months, including the Bucky Cow, who found a home in Madison.
About half of the 101 cows featured in this year’s CowParade Wisconsin, in Madison, Fitchburg and Sun Prairie were auctioned off at a benefit for the new American Family Children’s hospital during a gala event at the Alliant Energy Center Exhibition Hall.
Despite the ending of its partnership with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, Madison-based Deltanoid Pharmaceuticals remains confident about prospects for its lead drug.
“It’s a very safe compound and it looks like it might work,” said UW-Madison Professor Hector DeLuca, who led the team that developed 2MD, a potentially revolutionary osteoporosis drug that is the first to show the ability to stimulate new bone formation, rather than just prevent bone loss.
The cows have gone home.
Many of the cows that decorated Dane County were sold at auction Friday night.
Out of the 101 cows from the Wisconsin cow parade, around half were auctioned off at the Alliant Energy Center.
60% of each cow’s profits will go to the American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison.
The other 40% will go to a variety of local charities.
Rick Bogle could not be more wrong with his assertion that ââ?¬Ë?nothing has been learned about HIV from studying monkeys.ââ?¬â?¢ Monkey research forms the basis for much of our current understanding of HIV.
Most University of Wisconsin students attending the battle for the Heartland Trophy this Saturday in Iowa City will probably not leave until this afternoon. However, for several members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, it was necessary to leave Thursday evening. After all, they�re pedaling.
More than 100 nurses from three Madison hospitals rallied this morning in front of the Dane County Courthouse to show their opposition to the criminal charges filed against registered nurse Julie Thao for medication errors that led to the death of a patient.
Word had spread through the nursing grapevine that Thao faced her initial court appearance today, when bail was to be determined for the felony charge of neglect of a patient causing great bodily harm.
People typically enter a church to feed their soul, but nearly 60 people walked into Madison’s Asbury United Methodist last Saturday to assess their vascular health. Each paid up to $109, by cash or credit card, for ultrasound services that could help save their life or simply flatten their wallet.
….While mobile screenings are a growing trend in health care, their value is debated among medical professionals, including vascular specialists at UW Health and Wisconsin Heart, which in Madison is based at Meriter Hospital.
People battling the effects of age have yet another incentive to get off the couch: Exercise may protect against the most severe form of age-related macular degeneration. Writing in the current British Journal of Ophthalmology, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison report that regular exercise seems to stave off the “wet” form of AMD, in which blood vessels in the eye leak fluid, eventually causing vision loss.
The Wisconsin Hospital Association says state prosecutors will decrease the availability of health care statewide by charging a nurse with criminal conduct after a patient died due to a medication error.
….Hospital association spokeswoman Dana Richardson said that “it makes no sense to add to this tragedy by alleging that this mistake, as upsetting as it was, was more than a human error.” Further, she said, it will give people pause about entering health care fields at a time when many more workers are needed.
….”A number of schools of nursing have increased enrollment, so there is a sizable increase in graduates, and employing organizations have worked to make the work environment supportive,” said Marilyn Kaufmann, chair of the state Board of Nursing, which licenses and disciplines nurses and approves schools of nursing.
The state contains 33 nursing schools, involving five University of Wisconsin campuses, 16 technical colleges and numerous private colleges.
Though downtown Madison feels a little empty without 101 fiberglass cows grazing its sidewalks, proceeds from a live auctioning of the bovines will help fund a new children�s hospital on the University of Wisconsin campus.
We respond as backup to an officer from the Madison Police Department. We find the girl lying in some overgrown brush near Dayton Street. She looks terrible. Her friends left her. The guys she met at the house party just canââ?¬â?¢t handle her anymore. They look afraid. Neither guy knows who she is. When asked her last name, she incessantly tries to spell the name of her dormââ?¬â?spelling it S-e-l-e-e-e-r-i. Her head leans back. Gazing at the stars vapidly, her mirth turns to sorrow. Her eyes look lifeless. She smiles. Succumbing to some unseen, but tacitly understood, pain she lurches forward. Only her wavering arms keep her from kissing dirt.
Dear Editor: The only baloney I was able to find in the statements of Bishop Morlino was his assertion that he espoused a universal truth. Bishop Morlino was quoted as asking his constituents “How would any of us like to be killed to help somebody else? You and I were embryos once.”
What Bishop Morlino fails to mention or refuses to acknowledge is that the embryos used in stem cell research are destined to be incinerated if not used in research. Not a single embryo is saved by banning stem cell research.
Oct 30, 2006 ââ?¬â?Ã? LONDON (Reuters) – Keeping an active lifestyle can reduce the risk of developing an eye disease that is a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, researchers said on Tuesday.
Regular exercise can prevent blindness in old age, research shows.
Those who break into a sweat during exercise at least three times a week are 70 per cent less likely to develop age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in the elderly.
Regular exercise could reduce the risk of an age-related eye disease, US research has suggested.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin followed almost 4,000 men and women over 15 years, carrying out eye tests and recording levels of exercise.
They found those with an active lifestyle were 70% less likely to develop the degenerative eye disease than those with a sedentary lifestyle.
MADISON, Wis. — Hospitals are preparing for an influx of partiers as both University of Wisconsin hockey teams and at home in addition to the Halloween party this weekend.Meriter Hospital is adding extra doctors, nurses, transporters and bulking up on supplies in the emergency room.
Some nursing students won�t be asking for treats when they dress up for Halloween Tuesday and go door to door in La Crosse and Onalaska.
They want money donations to help them make a trip to Kenya so they can help children and families with AIDS.
Instead of taking a semester break this school year, eight students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Western Campus nursing program at UW-L and Gundersen Lutheran will be working with AIDS orphans for three weeks in Kenya.
The last day that I spent with Paul Wellstone began on a sunny morning in the living room of his St. Paul home. I’d arrived to join him as he campaigned for re-election in what was widely seen as the most hotly contested Senate race in the nation.
….This week, as we mark the fourth anniversary of his death in a Minnesota plane crash, stem cell research is finally emerging as the sort of political issue that Wellstone thought it should be.
And Michael J. Fox, whose book the senator was reading on that sunny morning that now seems so very long ago, is at the center of the debate. This week, Fox began appearing in televised campaign commercials for Democratic supporters of embryonic stem cell research including Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle who are locked in tight races with Republicans who want to limit support for scientific inquiry.
Dear Editor: Congressman Mark Green cares about embryos more than American soldiers paralyzed while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. He likes to tell veterans he honors their sacrifice, but his opposition to stem cell research tells a different story.
We know he cares about embryos more than children with diabetes and old ladies with Alzheimer’s disease, so turning his back on paralyzed veterans must seem easy.
