“Children and adolescents are really the place we have to look the most,” said Dr. Angela Janis, director of psychiatry for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s University Health Services.
Every weekday, a steel machine inside the concrete vault basement of a research building near UW Hospital produces radioactive atoms used to detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
Lena Stojiljkovic, a 21-year-old UW-Madison music education student, knows first-hand the risk of consuming cannabis. In the fall of 2016, she was hospitalized for a psychotic break and diagnosed with bipolar I disorder. She said her doctors pointed towards her cannabis use.
The Native American Center for Health Professions, located within the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, will once again be the recipient of a competitive national grant to recruit American Indian and Alaska Native students into the field of medicine.
Including holiday staples such as mashed potatoes and stuffing, the traditional feast is full of fatty, high-cholesterol foods, says the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Native American Center for Health Professions, located within the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, will once again be the recipient of a competitive national grant to recruit American Indian and Alaska Native students into the field of medicine.
The university says UW-CTRI will partner with Aurora Health Care and UW Health. The program will contact patients of the two health care systems who are listed as smokers in electronic health records.
“I have Type 1 diabetes.” A frequently-repeated statement in my life since I was diagnosed in 2014. My pancreas stopped producing insulin and now I take insulin every single day, at every single meal, for every single thing I put in my body.
Gutzeit, Meiman and other vaping experts spoke at a Capitol briefing sponsored by UW-Madison’s Evidence-Based Health Policy Project.
The recently approved 2020 county budget will create the Dane County Universal Access Resource Center which works to connect public and private behavioral health providers. This new initiative will allow patients, providers and families to more easily navigate loved ones’ care.
The local organization Cardiac on Campus started after a student passed away from a cardiac event following a half marathon. The group recently donated their third AED at a residence hall on UW’s campus.
While college students often see themselves as immune to heart issues, sudden heart attacks can affect people of all ages.
The University of Wisconsin – Madison student organization Cardiac on Campus has raised $1,200 to buy an Automatic External Defibrillator, or AED, to keep in the Witte Residence Hall.
Cardiac on Campus installed the first Automatic External Defibrillators in Witte residence hall Monday afternoon.
Future plans included promoting similar model to other states and institutions.
About 4,000 smokers in Wisconsin will be asked to quit using a pill or patches and lozenges — or to consider quitting later — in a UW-Madison study supported by a new $14 million federal grant.
Members of UW-Madison’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity had some fun Saturday afternoon with residents at The Jefferson, a senior living community.
Members of Pi Kappa Alpha had a lunchtime chat with people at The Jefferson, talking about mens’ health, including prostate and testicular cancers. They then played bean bag baseball.
Quoted: “In a short period of time the CDC is finding those predictions are probably not too far off,” Dr. David Andes, a Professor of Infectious Disease in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Salon.
Quoted: “Not eating appropriately for the amount of energy an athlete expends is really the root of this syndrome,” University of Wisconsin orthopedic surgeon Andrea Spiker said in an RED-S fact sheet that says missing just three cycles is a warning sign.
It’s one of the most understaffed positions across the country: the medical assistant. They are the first people patients see when they come to a clinic for treatment.
Students in Wisconsin’s first and only Medical Assistant Registered Apprenticeship program graduated Friday at University of Wisconsin Health in Madison.
Quoted: “We have a crisis of youth tobacco use both in Wisconsin and nationwide,” said Dr. Michael Fiore, head of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Prevention. He was one of many doctors and other medical professionals who testified in support of the measure.
Quoted: “Psychedelics produce profound experiences,” said Chuck Raison, a professor at the School of Human Ecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Psychedelics have an antidepressant effect. They do both at the same time, so they get mythically linked, because the human brain works like that. It sees causation where there’s association.”
Mehta has a lot of heart, which she pours into her day job as a physician at UW-Health.
Dr. Ronak Mehta combined her passion for medicine and her love for plush toys to create something she hopes will spread some joy to hospital patients going through a rough patch in their lives. Nerdbugs – a line of stuffed cartoon-like characters representing various organs of the human body, including the heart, gall bladder, neuron, uterus and breasts – are also designed to teach people about anatomy.
Noted: Yi Fuxian, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pieces together birth estimates from other available data, such as the number of childbearing women and school enrollment. Using this method, he has arrived at estimates of only around 10 million births last year and a belief that the population is dropping.
Program aims to bring immunization to memory loss patients
The program distributes proceeds for public health initiatives from an endowment fund created when Blue Cross Blue Shield United of Wisconsin became a for-profit company in 2000. I have served on the program’s oversight advisory committee for 15 years as one of three members of the public who represent the interests of Wisconsin’s rural and urban communities and children.
A group of friends sees people drowning in a river. They immediately dive in to help — however, people continue to appear, drowning. One friend swims upstream to see what is pushing people into the river. This story is how we, as future physicians, are introduced to the social determinants of health.
Interview with clinical nutritionist Cassandra Vanderwall.
Quoted: “The theory here is that repetitive activity, performing these repetitive sport-specific tasks over and over again, will stress the tissue … and then eventually lead to a breakdown in that tissue overtime,” Dr. David Bell, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who led one of the studies, said in a press conference.
The UW Health Medical Assistant Registered Apprenticeship program is helping to address the gap by allowing entry-level employees train for the job.
Quoted: Judi Bartfeld, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies food security and policy, said she doesn’t think society will ever be able to eliminate food insecurity, but we can ease it.
“As long as there are families who are struggling with poverty and limited resources, I think we’re going to have struggles with food insecurity. I think we can certainly reduce it if we focus on tackling the root causes,” she said.
Quoted: “This is an incredibly stressful time to be a teenager,” says pediatrician Megan Moreno, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Wisconsin Partnership Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has announced a $1 million Community Impact Grant awarded to Centro Hispano of Dane County and its academic and community partners that will advance the quality of accessible linguistically and culturally competent services that support the mental health of the Latino community in Dane County.
Quoted: “The concern is that the flu season in Australia was very intense and a month and a half to two months earlier than usual,” said Jonathan Temte, associate dean for public health and community engagement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: UW Health in Madison does about 250 tests a week that use Tc-99m, said Scott Knishka, manager of nuclear pharmacy services at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Its Mo-99 comes from nuclear reactors in Europe.
Biostatistics and Medical Informatic professor KyungMann Kim and his team are in charge of managing.
Quoted: While some research points to lower numbers of people of color seeking treatment, Steve Quintana — professor of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — says those communities are showing up to appointments, not getting what they need and dropping out.
“The treatment that’s provided tends to be culturally loaded with white, middle-class culture and social norms, as well as people,” Quintana said.
“We still don’t know much about the brainstem, and many studies have omitted it from their analyses,” says lead researcher Brittany Travers, assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who presented the unpublished findings. “Our results suggest that it may be helpful in understanding the neurobiological basis of individual differences in symptom severity, both in autism and ADHD.”
Barbara King, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, studied how nurses responded to “intense messaging” from hospitals about preventing falls after the 2008 CMS policy change.
The “All of Us” Research Program is part of a nationwide effort to enroll one million or more people who will share information over time for use in health research studies.
One City and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative and the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education will partner with a $1 million grant, announced Wednesday, for a five-year study of One City’s educational methods and student outcomes.
Launched in the same week as World Mental Health day, UHS rolled out the program in partnership with DoIT via Canvas after spending the last year collaborating with different campus partners.
Quoted: UW-Madison food science professor Bradley Bolling says it’s not true.
“A microwave is a perfectly find way to warm up food,” he said. Bolling says the microwave’s heating speed is actually better.
“The short amount of time that it takes to heat up the product can actually preserve a little bit of the nutrition.”
A new study finds Wisconsin ranks second in the United States in binge drinking.
The report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Population Health Institute looks at both federal and state health data.
Noted: The legislation applies to municipalities, Marquette University and University of Wisconsin campuses. Families of special agents employed by the Department of Revenue and State Fair Park police officers also are eligible for the continued benefits.
The facility is funded by a program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Bridget Mouchon-Humphrey, program director for the Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program Inc., helped write the grant, which covers Iowa, Lafayette, Grant, Green and Richland counties.
Quoted: “When it comes to diversity in STEM studies, we act clueless. We don’t take our scientific mindset or approach to these issues,” said Angela Byars-Winston, the first black woman to become a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“If you look at national numbers, this age group is one of the least vaccinated against influenza. But we’ve made it pretty easy for students going out to places on campus and having a walk-in clinic here,” Bill Kinsey, UW-Madison Health Services Medical Director said.
The Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, Dr. Richard Davidson, developed the mindfulness-based “Kindness Curriculum” for preschoolers to help them pay closer attention to their emotions.
Quoted: “The marketplace has stabilized quite substantially in the last couple years. Insurers are making money,” explained Donna Friedsam, a health policy director for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty. “There were substantial (profit) margins in some cases. In the last year we saw a couple of the insurance carriers giving rebates to consumers.”
Madison West High School freshman Erin Tormey leaned over and looked closely through the otoscope, seeing gray in the ear of University of Wisconsin-Madison physician assistant student Violet Weibel.
The long-term complications from uncontrolled diabetes include the increased risk of a heart attack or stroke, nerve damage that causes tingling or numbness, kidney failure, blindness, and losing toes and feet to amputation.
Yet an estimated 17% of adults under the age of 65 who had diabetes were without health insurance before the expansion of coverage through the Affordable Care Act, according to a recent study by Rebecca Myerson, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and colleagues at the University of Southern California.
Three years ago, a group of health-tech entrepreneurs, investors and others familiar with UW-Madison’s painfully sluggish clinical trial process delivered a plea to campus leaders with the power to make changes.
Quoted: “These changes come out of huge health care systems like Kaiser Permanente,” says Byron Crouse, who retired last September from his job as associate dean for rural and community health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “How do you scale that down to a small, rural practice?”
Fresenius Kidney Care, which operates 2,400 dialysis facilities nationwide, has assumed majority ownership of two Wisconsin Dialysis Inc. clinics in the Madison area.
The program, Suicide Prevention Training for UW-Madison Students, is an online training that suicide prevention graduate assistant Rachel Dyer said takes about 90 minutes to complete.
Quoted: “These changes come out of huge health care systems like Kaiser Permanente,” says Byron Crouse, who retired last September from his job as associate dean for rural and community health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “How do you scale that down to a small, rural practice?”
