Category: Health

UW-Madison officials said the campus is disqualified from the ’70 for 70’ campaign since its campus community is expected to have a vaccination rate at or higher than 80% this fall.

Wisconsin weather forecasts for the next several days predict temperatures of 90 degrees Fahrenheit or more, and the public should take care when traveling or spending time outdoors, according to Rishelle Eithun, manager, Child Health Advocacy Program, UW Health.

The ultimate goal of the National LGBTQ+ Fellowship Program is to ensure that all LGBTQ+ patients receive the highest standards of care, according to Dr. Elizabeth Petty, principal investigator and program director for the interdisciplinary fellowship program.

Dr. Elizabeth Petty, senior associate dean for academic affairs at the medical school, explained the $750,000 in funding over the course of four years will help create the training program for primary care physicians who are early in their career.

The school’s National LGBTQ+ Fellowship Program, which will receive $750,000 in funding from the American Medical Association Foundation over the course of four years, will create a clinical training program for early-career physicians so they can help optimize LGBTQ+ patients’ health.

Madison: Wisconsin’s two medical schools are collaborating on a study addressing health disparities in the state. The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin will use $3 million in endowment money to measure and recommend solutions for health inequities, which have been underscored by the coronavirus pandemic.

The UW Undiagnosed Genetic Disease Clinic, a clinic for people with undiagnosed genetic diseases, will allow doctors to give a diagnosis to patients, give patients a better understanding of their condition and let experts discover new genes that can cause the disease.

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin will use $3 million in endowment money to measure and recommend solutions for health inequities, which have been underscored by the coronavirus pandemic.

A new collaboration between UW Health, the Waisman Center and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health aims to discover, diagnose and ultimately better understand rare genetic diseases.

A new collaboration between UW Health, the Waisman Center and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health is trying to better understand rare genetic diseases.

UW Health experts said there’s a rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations and the majority of patients are not vaccinated. In the past week, the number of people hospitalized jumped by 17 people and officials are urging those who have not been vaccinated to make an appointment as soon as possible.

The University of Wisconsin Health System is adding nearly two dozen new locations where someone will be able to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.

UW-Health’s Dr. Jeff Pothof describes this as “messy science”. He says, it’s not uncommon for scientists and health officials to go back and forth, trying to interpret all of the data.

UW Health says COVID vaccines are now available at its primary care clinics throughout the Dane County area.

Dr. Patricia Téllez-Girón—a UW Health doctor and associate professor of family medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health—takes care of patients at the Wingra Family Medical Center. In her free time, Dr. Téllez-Girón serves as co-chair of the Latino Health Council, helping her community get vaccinated against COVID-19.

“We started hearing a lot in the media about ’oh the minority populations, they are not going to want it. There is gonna be a lot of hesitancy,’” UW Health Primary Care Provider Dr. Patricia Téllez-Girón said. “Particularly here in Dane County we started thinking, huh, I don’t think that is going to be the case with our population.”

Dane County has the strongest COVID-19 vaccination rate in Wisconsin for the Latinx community, and a UW Health physician has had a big hand in that effort.

The ambulatory nurse program is designed for new nurses who just finished school. The program began in February, but a new group will start the program in August.

“When we talk about herd immunity, it’s not as simple as talking all the 65 plus into getting immunized,” UW Health’s Dr. Jeff Pothof said. “It really needs to be a representative cross sample of that community that you’re living in getting to that high number.”

Doctors told Daniel Wilburn’s family he had asthma. But when the 24-year-old’s breathing problems turned worse this spring, tests showed major blood clots in his lungs had put so much pressure on his heart that all of the organs were failing. On April 4, Easter Sunday, Wilburn got a second chance for life with a rare heart-lung transplant at UW Hospital.