Gov. Jim Doyle today announced a $375 million research institute for the UW-Madison campus to help the state compete in the field of stem cell research. The proposal will need to be approved by the Legislature as part of the state budget…. The governor is also asking the Legislature to invest $1.5 million in Alzheimer’s disease research.
Gov. Jim Doyle is set to unveil today a multifaceted strategy to maintain Wisconsin’s importance in the growing scientific fields of stem cell research and biotechnology.
Drugs to treat cancer and epilepsy, and sugar substitutes that can be used to fight bacteria were some of the products touted by 33 companies seeking to match up with potential investors at the Wisconsin Life Sciences and Venture Conference on Tuesday at Monona Terrace.
Steve Dulin is no scientist. He’s an electrician working on the Overture Center for the Arts in Downtown Madison.
Monday evening, Tom and Doris Smeltzer gathered at the Health Science Research Center, 750 Highland Ave., to share the story of their daughter, Andrea Smeltzer, a young woman from California who lost her struggle with bulimia at the age of 19 after a 13-month battle.
“Andrea’s Voice: Eating Disorders From a Daughter’s Insight and a Parent’s Perspective,” was put together by Andrea’s parents in an attempt to educate students and parents around the country about eating disorders while keeping their daughter’s memory alive.
Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to announce soon a strategy to keep Wisconsin at the forefront of stem cell research, despite a California vote to spend billions in public dollars on the effort.
R. Timothy Mulcahy, a top research official at UW-Madison, is leaving to go to the University of Minnesota. Mulcahy has been the University of Wisconsin’s point man on stem cell research and compliance with federal regulations on human and animal research, as well as some biological agents.
According to the U.S. Patent Office, a Wisconsin foundation has the right to royalties that might be generated by stem cell therapies. But there are signs that a worldwide battle on that issue is already taking shape. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, known as WARF, holds among its 40 stem cell patents a basic one that broadly covers the preparation of embryonic stem cells. Basic patents, often the underpinnings of whole new industries, are highly prized and frequently contested.
Gov. Jim Doyle says he plans within the next two weeks to announce a strategy to expand the state’s position in the tantalizing but still-unproven realm of stem cell research.
UW-Madison has long had a reputation as a top school for academics and athletics, but within the student body there is a more prominent tradition the administration is not so proud of-the reputation of being an alcohol-rich university.
The University Health Service�s new Violence Prevention Specialist, Carmen Hotvedt, begins her first day of work today, bringing new ideas on how to properly address sexual and domestic abuse issues on campus.
MADISON ââ?¬â?? This week’s Wisconsin Life Sciences and Venture Conference will highlight the state’s emergence as a center for drug therapy start-ups.
Nursing students in the Milwaukee area no longer have to settle for inanimate mannequins to serve as “practice patients” during lab sessions.
The College of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee started using high-tech virtual patients this fall, allowing students to learn by treating simulated medical conditions.
UW Hospital and the union representing its nurses have reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract. The agreement, which still must be ratified by both sides, calls for an end to forced overtime and pay raises of about 10 percent.
UW Health researchers are recruiting women to test a new drug that could build bone mass, staving off osteoporosis or undoing some of its damage.
UW Hospital and the union representing its nurses have reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract that ends forced overtime and includes raises of roughly 10 percent.
(MADISON)Ã? About four months ago, UW police purchased 24 Automatic External Defibrillators, or A.E.D’s. Now they’ve been recalled, and sit in a UW Police storage room, after being taken off the street.
An investment of $8.5 million from a venture-capital syndicate has drawn a St. Louis biotech company to Wisconsin, where it will inhabit brand-new lab facilities at Milwaukee County Research Park, the Wisconsin Technology Network reported.
Despite warnings of addiction and a growing underground market for the illegal purchase of prescription drugs, medication-coupled with professional guidance-often helps university students more than it hurts them, according to University Health Services Director of Counseling and Consultation Bob McGrath.
It’s a sad but recurring campus story: This autumn, students are again drinking themselves to death. (11/9/04 Capital Times print edition)
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, claiming the lives of nearly 4,000 people between the ages of 15 and 24 in 2001, according to the American Association of Suicidology. Still, the rate of suicide at UW-Madison has remained remarkably low, due in large part to the university’s pro-active approach to this extremely sensitive issue. Assistant Dean of Students Ervin Cox pointed out despite suicide’s status as a national problem, there were zero suicides last year at UW-Madison, a school of more than 40,000 students.
People with glaucoma, a disease that can lead to blindness, might some day be better able to treat their illness, thanks to an agreement between UW-Madison and a North Carolina biopharmaceutical company.
hey face a wide variety of transitional challenges and difficulties adjusting to college and achieving independence.
From academic anxiety to severe clinical depression, the concerns students face create a need for complex solutions, not faceless statistics. Differences in race, gender and sexual preference can further alienate students, creating new problems and making existing ones worse.
The UW Board of Regents approved construction of a $133.9 million research center Friday near UW Hospital and the recently opened Health Sciences Learning Center.
A group of patients with neurological diseases have rented an airplane with a banner to fly over the Badgers football game today.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a large construction project Friday: the final part of the multi-year Healthstar initiative, which is changing the face of west campus Medical School buildings.
Just what the doctor ordered – a lawyer.
That’s not quite the prescription at two Madison clinics. But they do house a free legal service for senior citizens, and doctors are encouraged to refer patients who might benefit from a consultation.
Quoted: Lewis Leavitt, medical director of the Waisman Center on Human Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.
(MADISON)Ã? Kids staying at the UW Children’s Hospital got to meet some hometown heroes Thursday. Bucky Badger and members of the University of Wisconsin football team visited patients
Continue getting mammograms, but don’t ignore a constant cough. This is a health message that women shouldn’t ignore, says Dr. Joan Schiller, a medical oncologist at University Hospital….To help raise awareness, she recently founded a nonprofit organization called Women Against Lung Cancer. Its mission is to encourage more research funding.
California voters have decided to give their state a huge infusion of money for stem cell research there. University of Wisconsin officials are concerned that could put Wisconsin at a competitive disadvantage in a field pioneered here.
(11/3/04 Capital Times print edition)
An editorial supporting a World Health Organization summit of nations and flu vacccine makers. Mentions UW-Madison research on the 1918 flu virus.
Applications to medical schools in the United States inched up in 2004 for the second consecutive year, with women outnumbering men and both black and Hispanic students making significant gains, the Association of American Medical Colleges announced last month. (Subscription required.)
…You probably don’t need to hear that a British scientific journal just listed Madison as ground zero for a plague that, when last unleashed on the world, killed 40 million people.
Dan Quigley is eating ice cream again. After three pancreatic islet cell transplants, the Door County man has become the first Wisconsin resident with Type 1 diabetes to be declared free of the need for insulin injections.
Last weekend, diabetic Dan Quigley walked to his refrigerator, took out the insulin he’d injected three times daily for 42 years, and threw it in the trash.
A protein named after a video game could be key in developing new treatments for prostate and other cancers, doctors said. Clinical trials in humans could begin at the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center sometime in 2005, said Dr. George Wilding, director of the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Quoted: Munci Kalayoglu, professor of surgery and director of the liver transplant program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospita
California voters on Nov. 2 will decide whether to authorize a powerful burst of state funding for stem cell research there. Proposition 71 on the ballot would provide about $3 billion in tax-free state bonds for stem cell research in that state over a 10-year period.
Quoted: Jody Garthwaite, University of Wisconsin Pain and Policy Studies Group.
The University of Wisconsin Hospital’s nationally known organ transplant program may be in for some changes.
It’s because of a key kidney transplant performed in Colorado. The man found his organ donor on the Internet. But many in the medical field are expressing concern about a commercial Web site finding organ donors.
Applications to medical schools in the United States inched up this year for the second straight year, with women outnumbering men and both black and Hispanic students making significant gains, the Association of American Medical Colleges announced on Wednesday. Enrollments also rose this year, notably among minority students. (Subscription required.)
….At UW-Madison, some 1,500 students with known medical conditions that put them at risk for potentially deadly flu complications were notified by e-mail Tuesday to come in for a vaccination
(Madison) It’s the first step in turning a parking lot into a new childrens’ hospital near the University of Wisconsin Hospital. Groundbreaking ceremonies were held Monday for the new facility.
(Madison) It’s the first step in turning a parking lot into a new childrens’ hospital near the University of Wisconsin Hospital. Groundbreaking ceremonies were held Monday for the new facility.
Construction of the new UW Children’s Hospital began Monday with a groundbreaking ceremony in the parking lot where the hospital will stand.
A controversial suicide prevention program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has sparked discussion across college campuses nationwide.
The University of Wisconsin is one of seven sites in the country selected for a grant award from the National Institutes of Health to advance medical training and research. The $14 million three-to-five year grant will fund the Training and Education to Advance Multidisciplinary Research, or TEAM, program.
Quoted: Maryl Johnson, a professor of medicine and medical director of the heart failure and transplant program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Don’t mind the three-eared guy with the robot arm.
He’s Stelarc, an Australian performance artist, who will give a guest lecture Nov. 4 for one of the hottest new classes on the UW-Madison campus.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madison intends to train more clinical researchers, whose work is rising in prestige and importance in medical science, with the help of a $14 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health.
More than a third of Americans use some form of complementary or alternative medicine – treatments or regimens used in conjunction with, or as an alternative to, standard Western medicine. Mentions UW-Madison competing for federal grants to study alternative medicine.
Long lines and short tempers, that is the scene at flu clinics nationwide, but here in Madison people are minding their manners.
Seeking to put Alzheimer’s disease on the same footing as cancer and heart disease, health officials are embarking on a landmark initiative that regularly will scan the brains and analyze the bodily fluids of 800 people. With at least $60 million to spend over the next five years, the undertaking will involve 45 universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Details from a large-scale survey focusing on treatment goals for schizophrenia shed new light on what physicians and people with schizophrenia feel is important for long-term quality care, according to Ronald J. Diamond, M.D, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
MADISON, Wis. — The shortage of flu shots is forcing UW Hospital to use its triage system.
Quoted: Douglas Dulli, a professor of neurology and public health medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Is keeping your children off drugs as simple as an at-home test kit? A national drugstore chain is promoting just that. But a Dane County doctor and others are cautioning parents that the tests don’t always work and that talking to children about drugs is still the most effective way to prevent abuse.
Centers for Disease Control officials announced last week the supply of influenza vaccine will be cut in half this 2004-05 flu season due to contamination in a British plant, inducing a shortage of the medicine to many low-risk individuals.
Quoted: UW psychiatry professor Dr. Hugh Johnson.
