Quoted: Dr. Joshua Lang of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center said he hopes the merger would mean more practical tools for oncologists.
“As we’ve learned more, we’re starting to understand just how many different types of cancers there are,” he said. “We need better tests. And if (I’m) smarter as a clinician, because I have better information, it means I’m going to be able to deliver better care.”
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics are now among the 20 best hospitals in the entire nation for the first time ever, according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest rankings released Monday.
Dr. Petros Anagnostopoulos, the chief surgeon at American Family Children’s Hospital, spoke to the Cap Times about his work, its challenges and how he strives to improve outcomes for patients.
A partnership between the Monroe (Wis.) Clinic-SSM Health and University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing has been helping to address the state’s rural healthcare shortage.
Noted: Barcelos, who relocated to Madison from Massachusetts in January, is a UW-Madison professor of gender and women’s studies. Barcelos — who uses they/their pronouns — researches public health through queer, race and feminist perspectives. A yoga teacher since 2012, Barcelos leads the class with an intentional, yet light, demeanor, inviting yogis to take movements rather than telling them to.
Noted: Preliminary data show there were 299 car crash injuries related to speed in Milwaukee County through Monday, compared with 224 through roughly the same period in 2010, according to the Community Maps database, an online tool developed by the state Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Safety and the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That’s a 33% increase.
Intramurals provide an opportunity to create new friendships and lower stress during the school year
Quoted: One single risk factor will never explain the entirety of psychiatric problems, wrote Chuck Raison, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in a special report on the topic in Psychiatric Times. But “inflammation turned out to be a common denominator and likely risk factor for every manner of psychiatric disturbance, from schizophrenia to obsessive compulsive disorder, from mania to depression,” he wrote.
Norberta Garcia is increasingly familiar with the oncology department waiting room at UW Hospital. The terminology used once she’s in the doctor’s office is still a little foreign. Dannika Lewis reports.
As the section chief for EMS for the University of Wisconsin Department of Emergency Medicine, part of Lohmeier’s responsibilities include responding to major emergencies or disasters.
Maganti, a UW professor, neurologist has been sued by a former patient for medical malpractice and inappropriate behavior
A Reedsburg woman has sued a UW-Madison doctor, accusing him of medical negligence in treating her epilepsy and of sexual exploitation, including kissing her and calling her “hot” and “baby doll” in texts and Facebook messages.
Noted: In Wisconsin, the number of children with an ASD continues to increase each year, the agenda notes said. Currently, one in 71 children in Wisconsin has been diagnosed with an ASD, according to data cited in the notes from the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The center also called for planning for ASD services and training.
Kristen Bernard, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine who was not involved in the latest study, says genomic sequencing studies of PEDV suggest it originated in from a viral strain in China in 2012. Experts suggest that PEDV may have spread to the U.S. through animal feed ingredients from China.
Acetaminophen—the active ingredient in many Americans’ go-to pain reliever, Tylenol—typically stems from a surprising source: coal tar, a viscous liquid produced when oxygen-deprived coal is subjected to high heat.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been ordered to turn over records used in determining how millions of dollars in public health grants were awarded. UW-Madison must also pay legal fees accrued during a two-year battle by the university to keep the records private.
Noted: “At some point, it may be the case that we are completely prevented from using fossil fuels,” said John Ralph, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose lab conducted the research.
Some Madison VA medical departments, such as the heart-and-lung transplant unit, recommend providers read patients’ stories to develop a bond before major procedures. One primary-care doctor sends his patients a note to let them know he has read their story. And the University of Wisconsin medical school now offers an elective for students to staff the program as part of preparing for their medical careers.
UW Hospital plans to launch the first study in the country of a cell therapy for a potentially serious complication of kidney transplants, the most common type of organ transplant.
UW-Madison is one of two test sites in a NASA-funded study starting in coming weeks to see if the headband can help astronauts sleep more deeply and improve their cognitive performance.
UW-Madison is exploring a partnership with another University of Wisconsin System campus to address a shortage of physician assistants in rural areas, the university announced Wednesday.
Under a program offered through UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health, students would earn a degree through UW-Madison’s physician assistant program by taking classes at UW-Platteville.
Apple Bodemer, a dermatologist and assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the problem with sunscreen is that sunbathers aren’t applying enough of it and not as frequently as needed.
Emily Stanley, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Limnology and Department of Integrative Biology, said although they haven’t yet seen large blooms she describes as “epic” in Madison’s lakes, they are seeing frequent blooms. She said people should stay away from water that looks like it has white, blue or green foam floating on the top.
Quoted: “It’s taking people who are basically normal and would like to look better and feel better about themselves, and there’s nothing wrong with that,” said James Grotting, a plastic surgeon on the clinical faculty at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “But there might be no end of what patients might request if it’s covered by a third party.”
With the Fourth of July weekend around the corner, more people are heading outdoors and into the territory of bugs with infectious diseases. We talk with a UW-Madison researcher (Lyric Bartholomay) about protecting yourself from ticks and Lyme disease, and what scientists are learning about these pests.
While for the most part manufacturers have moved away from formaldehyde in clothing, it does show up occasionally, said Majid Sarmadi, design studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin committee tasked with awarding public health grants violated state open records and open meetings laws when it denied a request for information about the grant-awarding process, a Dane County judge has ruled.
Noted: After graduation, Steck received a full ride to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he will attend medical school this fall at the School of Medicine and Public Health.
UnityPoint Health, one of the largest health systems in the Midwest and the 13th-largest nonprofit health system in the U.S., recently launched a $100 million venture fund to invest in startup companies focusing on digital health, medical devices, and therapeutic and healthcare services.
Johnson became part of a study at UW Health on what is known as shared decision-making — a process in which physicians and patients work together to help patients decide on the treatment options that best align with their priorities, concerns and values.
The family went to their family doctor to get it checked out, and eventually they went to University of Wisconsin Health’s American Family Children Hospital.
News 3 Now’s Josh Spreiter caught up with clinical exercise physiologist Jude Sullivan at UW Health. He says fitness is and will always be different for each person.
Twenty-five attendees from 16 institutions from 15 states will convene at UW-Madison June 17-21.
Lovastatin is already approved for use in children with high cholesterol, so if proven effective for fragile X, it could quickly be prescribed for people with the syndrome, says Xinyu Zhao, Jenni and Kyle Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Dr. Amy Kind is a physician and Ph.D.-trained researcher in geriatrics with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies the way people’s environment affects their well-being. That can mean the ways housing or income-levels in a neighborhood can affect population health. She said another big factor in her aging patients’ health is their ability to maintain social connections.
Megan Sykes, an immunologist at Columbia University, has spent years using human fetal tissue to develop a mouse with a humanlike immune system, which mimics how type 1 diabetes develops in humans. The tissue is donated after elective abortions, and the mice are testbeds for potential diabetes treatments.
Following a consistent decline of cigarette use among UW-Madison students, a third-generation vaping trend has taken its place and surpassed previous smoking statistics.
Without clear understandings, things can go very wrong in the hospital. Consider this account from Dr. Gretchen Schwarze, a vascular surgeon and ethicist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Bioethicist R. Alta Charo from the University of Wisconsin–Madison said the new measures are significant for two reasons. “First, it is a clear indication that this administration values symbolic statements over research aimed at saving lives,” she wrote to Gizmodo in an email.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the federal government would sharply curtail federal spending on medical research that uses tissue from aborted fetuses, mainly by ending fetal-tissue research within the National Institutes of Health.
The Trump administration on Wednesday said it would bar scientists at federal agencies from pursuing research using fetal tissue and add new hurdles for researchers on college campuses to renew funding for research using the materials. It also said it would drop a contract with the University of California, San Francisco, to research HIV infection using the tissue.
The Trump administration Wednesday imposed new restrictions on federal use of fetal tissue obtained from abortions, barring government scientists at NIH from doing such research, and canceling an existing HIV research contract with the University of California, San Francisco.
“There is no evidence that the use of donated tissue from fetal remains has any effect on whether women choose abortions, and no evidence that decades of research using donated tissue has ever led to an increase in the number of abortions,” said Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin.
By leveraging a small part of its purchasing power, UW Health has been building a system that upholds community health, minimizes pollution of air and water that diminishes health, and improves economic well-being of our rural residents.
WASHINGTON — Government scientists must stop research that uses human fetal tissue, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday in a series of new restrictions.
“It is a clear indication that this administration values symbolic statements over research aimed at saving lives,” Alta Charo, a bioethics professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, wrote to BuzzFeed News in an email Wednesday. “Indeed, in one of the greatest ironies, this tissue might be used for research on the Zika virus that can cause devastating birth defects, so a policy aimed at symbolically valuing fetal life may end up devaluing the lives of actual children.”
Charles Beschta developed heartburn, and his breathing became so difficult he had to quit singing in his church choir.
Dane County prosecutors dismissed a felony sexual assault charge against a former UW doctor Tuesday, agreeing with the doctor’s attorneys that a “poorly drafted” state law under which the charge was filed doesn’t apply to the facts of the case.
Quoted: Frank R. Greer, M.D., emeritus professor of pediatrics and nutritional science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Medicine, made the case for consumption of heme iron found in red meat and dark poultry in a June 3 presentation in New Orleans at IFT19, the Institute of Food Technologists’ annual meeting and exposition.
Dr. Kelly McQueen, a professor of anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, will head up the department beginning Oct. 1, the UW School of Medicine and Public Health said Monday.
The University of Wisconsin’s Med Flight announced the addition of new helicopters on Friday.
The app is part of a behavioral study being carried out by researchers at UW-Madison and Columbia University in New York who are seeking to better understand where and how people encounter ticks. They’re particularly interested in finding out what activities people are doing (and where they’re doing them) when they encounter black-legged (or deer) ticks (Ixodes scapularis), which often carry the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.
Other low-cost spay and neuter services exist in the Madison area, but veterinarian Meghan Schuh has made a specialty of these operations in her new clinic, Precision Veterinary.
Schuh graduated from UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine in 2016, where she interned with both the UW’s Shelter Medicine program and the Dane County Humane Society, helping to standardize best practices for surgery, care and rehabilitation of animals. Her career inspiration came early on: “I adopted a malnourished kitten from a free box when I was 5 years old and took her straight to the vet. I fell in love and decided I was going to nurse her back to health.”
Noted: In Wisconsin, gaps between white and black mortality among mothers and their infants pose a “significant crisis,” according to Amy Williamson, associate director of the Univeristy of Wisconsin Collaborative for Reproductive Equity based in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
After losing his hind legs in an accident, Stubbs the cat is getting a little help from a group of students at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Column: It would be a shame to lose the moral high ground and esteem of those of us who have enjoyed bragging about UW Health’s commitment to the broader community and not just the bottom line.
Guest column: My beautiful child was 20 years old when he died of a vaccine-preventable disease as a UW-Madison student in the University of Wisconsin System. The horror and pain was unspeakable. That was 17 years ago.
Quoted: “At a fundamental level, I bet most people who drink [alcohol] don’t really know exactly how this drug works,” said Kevin Strang, a faculty associate in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education. “It’s unique in the drug world.”
“This can easily bulk up the stool, reduce constipation, and eliminate excess gas and bloat. With about 3g of fiber in each fruit, it represents about 10 percent of the daily recommended amount of fiber,” lead researcher Sherry Tanumihardjo from the University of Wisconsin- Madison said in the review study.
Historically, a lack of insurance has been a major barrier for patients, said Funk, who’s an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Letter to the editor: I was dismayed to see Lindsay Christian’s May 16 article “UW Health shifts focus from local food” since I have been in charge of food operations for six years and there has been no shift away from using local products, nor any change in our commitment to a local spend of at least 20 percent of our total food budget.
Once a week for eight months the students take classes while working full-time in their jobs at UW Health.
