Deltanoid Pharmeceuticals, a Madison-based startup founded by University of Wisconsin-Madison medical researcher Hector F. DeLuca, is gaining steam in its attempt to develop a way to rebuild bone.
Author: Dr. Joan Schiller, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Hospital.
The number of hospital patients who die from preventable errors may be twice as high as previously estimated and shows no sign of decreasing, according to a new national review of Medicare records by a Denver-based health care ranking group. The findings would make medical mistakes the third-leading cause of death in the country, behind heart disease and cancer.
MADISON ââ?¬â?? If you stand on your tiptoes and squint, you can almost read the framed documents hanging in the lobby of UW Madison’s new $35.6 million biochemistry building.
Quoted: Timothy Harrington, an osteoporosis expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In triathlon jargon, it’s known as a brick. A brick is a workout consisting of two different events back to back — say a grueling five-hour bike rid followed by a two-hour run. (Story features Joe Scherman, a 22-year-old UW pre-med student & part-time employee of the Medical Sciences lab.)
State medical regulators Wednesday refused to settle a case against a former UW Health physician for allegedly over-prescribing painkillers including morphine and Oxycontin to a woman in his private practice three years ago.
Pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories and UW-Madison spin-off Deltanoid Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced the completion of an option and license agreement to develop a new generation of vitamin D receptor activators (VRDAs) for the treatment of kidney disease.
UW Hospital makes four parking spaces, which have electrical hookups but no water, available to patients’ relatives at no charge. Three campers or motor homes were parked there this week, and more than 120 families use the spaces each year. The spaces are leased from UW-Madison, which owns the lot.
One critical aspect of drug addiction is the effect of conditioned cues on drug-seeking behavior. Scientists at the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison have reported that adolescent and adult rats exhibit different behaviors in response to nicotine and nicotine-related environments, suggesting there are molecular differences in adolescent and adult rat brains.
FREEPORT — FHN has unveiled new technology that is expected to have a huge impact on fighting cancer at the Leonard C. Ferguson Cancer Center in Freeport.
Two weeks ago, the center treated its first patient with Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, made possible by a $750,000 investment by FHN and a partnership with the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Young men who got intensive counseling before and after being released from prison were less likely to have unsafe sex or to do other things that put them at risk of getting HIV and other sexually spread diseases, a study found
A homeless man was charged Thursday with brutal assaults on three women, one of them a stranger he allegedly dragged into a downtown basement and raped.
Brian L. Johnson, 35, known on the street as Pee Wee, has been held in the Dane County Jail since shortly after the June 7 attack on the 18-year-old woman in the basement of a tavern in the 600 block of University Avenue. Madison police announced last week that they had made an arrest in the case, but refused to name the suspect because they said it would hamper their investigation.
