Category: Health

A high-level group of scholars and researchers is meeting in Madison this week – people who could have an impact on a wide variety of health-related issues facing many of us, from Medicaid coverage to obesity treatment.
The American Society of Health Economists, an organization formed two years ago, is holding its first conference, and UW-Madison is hosting the event.

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin researchers may have pinpointed a way to detect smoking-associated lung diseases much sooner than ever before.

Five-year-old Jordan Holst shuffled straight down the hospital corridor in his slippers and surgical smock with one thing – and suddenly three things – on his mind.

At the end of the hall, he pushed open the doors to a small lobby and found three dogs waiting patiently with their owners to see him.

More than 60 percent of initial participants in a UW-Madison smoking cessation study had quit smoking at the end of eight weeks of treatment, study coordinators announced Tuesday.
About 800 people have been enrolled in the study, which is comparing five methods of treatment: a nicotine patch and the drug Zyban, each with and without a nicotine lozenge, and the lozenge alone.

The study is recruiting more than 1,500 participants from Madison and Milwaukee. For more information, call 877-363-2447 or visit www.endcigs.com.

Mitch Weber met a doctor at UW Hospital who traveled to China to perform surgeries for free on children who either can’t go to school or get jobs because of a facial deformity.

Doctor Ben Marcus chose medicine as a career to change peoples’ lives. So when he was recruited to join the Smile China Project. He couldn’t pass up the offer to travel thousands of miles away to literally change the lives of children physically, mentally and socially.

The University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital will salute the 10th anniversary of its Pet Pals program with a celebration June 1.

The program brings selected dogs to the hospital on Tuesday evenings and Saturday afternoons to boost the morale of children who are hospitalized. The program was started in 1996 by Linda Teeter, a veterinary medical student who is now working as a vet in Jefferson.

Age: 57.
Personal: Married to Chuck (Charles); son Tom.

Education: Bachelor’s degree, English and Comparative Literature, UW-Madison; master’s degree, teaching, Monmouth College.

Occupation: Just finished eight years as vice president of marketing and public affairs, UW Hospitals and Clinics; formerly director of corporate communications, Wisconsin Power & Light Co. and Baraboo High School English and drama teacher.

High atop UW Hospital, a little machine catches invisible grains of pollen wafting through the air on their way to attack vulnerable people. Sunny, breezy spring days are perfect for microscopic tree pollen to bring runny noses and itchy eyes to nearly 36 million Americans who suffer from seasonal allergies.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison issued a denial Friday of a sexual harassment claim by one of the three doctors at the UW fertility clinic but acknowledged tensions among the three are a problem.

The UW response by attorney John Dowling attempted to refute claims in a complaint filed with the state by Dr. Elizabeth Pritts that she was harassed by Dr. Steven Lindheim. The third doctor in the clinic is Pritts’ husband, Dr. David Olive.

Dozens of doctors at UW-Madison receive money from drug and medical device companies, but they generally don’t have to tell patients – even if they prescribe or implant the companies’ products.

UW-Madison on Friday denied sexual harassment claims by one of three doctors at the university fertility clinic, which was nearly shut down this spring because of tensions among the physicians.

20 million viewers tune in every Sunday to watch the hit ABC show ”Grey’s Anatomy”.

We went to UW Hospital and followed a surgical intern around for a few hours and discovered, of course, that Hollywood takes some liberties when it comes to these hardworking doctors.

Toni Schriver wants to spread the word – and the healing nose nudge – of animal-assisted therapy.

So Schriver, a licensed veterinarian technician at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine, is building a nonprofit organization, PAWWS to Heal (Passionate Animals Working with Survivors), to make the soothing capacity of animals available to therapists to use with their clients.

Eleven Milwaukee Public Schools now have mumps cases, the Milwaukee Health Department said Thursday.

With four cases of mumps in Dane County this month, including the first one in a UW- Madison student confirmed Tuesday, health officials are giving advice that may seem puzzling.

A UW Hospital rehabilitation and pain management doctor has been sued three times in two months by women who claim he had inappropriate sexual contact with them during treatment.

UW Health is revamping how it handles security procedures at most of it’s complexes. Right now, security is handled by UW Campus Police — but that’s about to change. UW Health executives say it’s all about continuity and better service; better service in terms of better management of security at UW Hospital and Clinics. UW Health officials say they’re looking for a management team that has an expertise in security at hospitals and health care facilities — something UW Campus Police lacks.

Off-stage, Tommy Thompson gave Donna Shalala a polite kiss on the cheek Monday, then took his seat, stage right, and she took hers stage left.
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The seating arrangement left them separated by party, ideology and a moderator: Democrat John Breaux, the former senator from Louisiana.

The two former Health and Human Services secretaries met as part of a discussion series dubbed “Ceasefire on Health Care,” sponsored by American University’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies with a grant from drug giant Pfizer Inc.

Dear Editor: Your April 7 article on the family medicine clinical practice at UW Health Research Park reported that the clinic may be closing. This gives readers, some of whom are our patients, the impression that we are discontinuing the services. This is not true, and we regret any concern this has caused.

The future is uncertain for another medical practice located in a UW Health facility.The family medicine practice at 621 Science Drive, located within the UW Research Park, is expected to shut its doors, perhaps by September.

“It’s been decided we don’t fit the hospital’s strategic plan,” said medical director Jerry Ryan.