The organization received a boost in funding last fall from the Healthy Dane Funders, made up of Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin, SSM Health, UnityPoint Health-Meriter and UW Health.
Noted: Linsey Steege, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, studies how to improve the health, safety and performance of health professionals. Her work points to what she calls the “supernurse” phenomenon.
[R]ather than abruptly canceling contracts with local suppliers, UW Health should have taken an approach similar to the city of Madison’s response to SSM Health’s plans — seeking ways to avoid an unnecessary choice.
Not a single University of Wisconsin campus requires students to receive the measles vaccine, and just one of the 13 campuses requires students to submit immunization records.
Quoted: “I think this will be a huge opportunity for many state employees to improve their health,” said Dr. Luke Funk, a bariatric surgeon at UW Health who had urged the state to offer the coverage.
When an institution the size of UW Health stops buying from a small producer, it affects not only that smaller company’s bottom line. It also impacts these producers’ visibility to a local audience with a vested interest in healthy food. Many of those partnerships came about under the leadership of Ellen Ritter, UW Health’s executive chef, who left the company at the end of 2018 and has not been replaced.
Noted: As consensus builds that having a doula improves birth outcomes, funding is starting to follow. The City of Milwaukee recently passed legislation for a pilot program that will provide funding for 100 women in 53206 to receive doula services. Gov. Tony Evers’ recommended budget includes a proposal to fund doula services through Medicaid. And the African American Breastfeeding Network recently received a $50,000 grant from the Wisconsin Partnership at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health to help Milwaukee’s community doulas work together and educate the community about their services.
Noted: A 2017 study by the University of Wisconsin found that more than half of transgender and nonbinary youths said they had negative experiences with mental health professionals based on their gender.
Quoted: “It’s like you have a can of gasoline and you’re just waiting for someone to drop a match,” said James Conway, a doctor who specializes in pediatric infectious diseases and associate director for health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
The opioid epidemic is such a massive problem, it would probably be impossible to tackle without a collaborative solution, said Barbara Wolfe, professor emerita of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Even so, the results highlight the need for further research to explore whether statins might one day be prescribed to prevent glaucoma, which is not currently an approved use of these pills, said the co-author of an accompanying editorial, Dr. Yao Liu of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine is one of three schools involved in the trial. The treatment will be tested on dogs, last week UW-Madison researchers started administering the treatment.
Quoted: “It’s actually remarkable to me that we haven’t had a case yet,” said Dr. James Conway, professor and associate director for health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Conway discussed the risks the state faces in a May 3, 2019 interview on Wisconsin Public Television’s Here & Now.
UW-Madison is one of a handful of universities in the Big 10 that do not require students to get the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. But with measles outbreaks in several other states, university health officials are discussing whether their vaccination recommendation to students should be a requirement.
NBC15’s John Stofflet shares the story of UW-Madison nursing student Tori Matson and how she brings a world of wonder to life for ill children.
MADISON, Wis. – This weekend, University of Wisconsin-Madison medical student Manu Habibi will walk across the stage to receive his diploma. He will also find his home, after being a refugee for more than 19 years.
When children face critical illnesses, it can be pretty scary, and make for some long days in the hospital. That’s where U-W School of Nursing student Tori Matson comes in. When she’s not learning the science of medicine, she’s learning how fiction also has some healing powers of its own.
Jonah Larson, 11, is pretty good at crocheting needles. But on Friday he traded in those needles for surgical tools.
“It just doesn’t happen,” said Dr. Doug Laube, who used to be the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “A guy could go decades without seeing a doctor, but when he is having trouble with erections or waking up three times in the night to urinate, he will seek medical attention,” says urologist David Paolone, vice chair of community and regional urology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “We need to look beyond those initial complaints at what could be leading to this, what unrecognized problems you have, and how we could be taking better care of you.”
Noted: Even before #MeToo, some parts of medical academia had begun to address sexual misconduct. At the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, administrators created a structure unconnected to the school where students or employees can report wrongdoing. An independent representative works with the student on how to deal with the allegation, including whether to go to the police or administrators, said Associate Dean Elizabeth Petty.
“We want to hold staff and faculty accountable if there’s a sexual assault,” Petty said. Right now, “there is a lot of under-reporting.”
Quoted: “We do know if people aren’t treated early, sometimes they go on to have lifelong symptoms,” said Susan Paskewtiz, a professor and chair of the University of Wisconsin Madison’s entomology department.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s chemistry department has provided paid parental leave for graduate students and postdocs since 2008. Birth mothers receive six weeks paid maternity leave, and any new parent, including birth mothers, partners and adoptive parents, receives another six weeks of paid leave. University gift funds support the periods of leave, and a 12-week combined leave taken by a birth mother costs about $10,000, says chemist Robert Hamers, who was department chair when the policy was formally adopted. “We don’t want women students or postdocs to drop out,” he says. And, he adds, it makes financial sense to ensure that students complete their PhDs.
Richard Davidson is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he has studied emotion and the brain for the past 35 years. Davidson’s work focuses on happiness and compassion being learned much like any other skill.
Premiering in April 2019, the documentary marks the 10-year anniversary of UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine, which trains and incentivizes medical students to practice in underserved rural communities around the state. The program aims to alleviate some of the most pressing rural health challenges, which the documentary investigates.
UW Health hospital was reverified as a Level I trauma center by the American College of Surgeons. They have been a Level I trauma center since 1992.
UW Health staff said, even with the change to antibiotic-free meat, all of the beef served at both University Hospital and American Family Children’s Hospital is local to Wisconsin.
A Fitchburg family has won a $22.5 million payment from a state malpractice fund in a lawsuit claiming a 6-week-old boy suffered permanent brain damage from oxygen deprivation during surgery at UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital.
Quoted: “I think many times people tend to think that nurses are nice, that they help. And it’s so much more than that. There’s so much training and education that goes into it,” says Cassie Voge, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Voge says, in actuality, there is a long list of things nurses can do.
“Administration, research, teaching like I do, advance practice nursing of course, our nurse practitioner, our certified registered nurse assistant colleagues, nurse midwives it’s just such a rich and robust profession to get into,” Voge says.
The Latino population in south-central Wisconsin has strengths and challenges, according to a new report released by the Carbone Cancer Center’s Cancer Health Disparities Initiative.
I have a trainer I to go to weekly. They’re from the University of Wisconsin-Madison kinesiology department and always the same age, in their 20s. I age, but my trainer doesn’t — rather like literature’s Dorian Gray. One of those guys was a hockey player before he saw the light, realizing he needed a college education to get a good job.
UW Health is celebrating an award it didn’t earn in the clinic, but in the cafeteria.In the last two years, the hospital has switched to antibiotic-free meat in 95 percent of its pork, beef, chicken and processed meats.
Andrew Watson, MD, MS, presented a research abstract looking at the connection between poor sleep habits and injury rates in some college athletes at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine in Houston.
Getting a good night’s sleep is an issue for many college athletes, who can suffer from insufficient sleep duration and poor sleep quality. Watson and his team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wanted to evaluate the effects of poor sleep on in-season injury in male and female college athletes.
Noted: Lucas Richert is the George Urdang Chair in the history of pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs.”
Quoted: “Most people don’t realize that the food system is one of the primary ways that humans are affecting the environment,” explained Valerie Stull, an interdisciplinary environmental health scientist and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Global Health Institute.
By now it’s well documented that UW-Madison lags behind most of its peers in turning its esteemed research into marketable goods. The question is what would it take for the university to get on track and become a pacesetter in the lucrative development of pharmaceutical drugs and cutting-edge medical treatment? One answer: a “major culture change spearheaded by top leadership.”
Noted: The first vaccine provides some protection from the disease.
“But we don’t know how much because it wasn’t studied,” said Jeremy Smith, an internist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
UW Health is giving the vaccine to patients with an appointment with their physician as opposed to people who call wanting just the vaccine.
General anaesthesia, in contrast, aims to do just that, creating an unresponsive drug-induced coma or controlled unconsciousness that is deeper and more detached from reality even than sleep, with no memories of any events during that period. As Robert Sanders, an anaesthetist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, puts it: “We’ve apparently ablated this period of time from that person’s experience.”
UW-Madison will open Wisconsin’s first Prevention Research Center this fall, thanks to a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hundreds of students at UW-Madison put on their walking shoes Sunday afternoon to help bring people out of the darkness. The walk is one of several across the country raising suicide prevention awareness.
Members of the Madison Latino community and the health issues they face “tend to be invisible for many reasons,” according to Dr. Patricia Tellez-Giron, co-chair of the Latino Health Council and associate professor in the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
Quoted: “This approach is much more labor intensive than the CDC’s approach,” says Maureen Durkin, professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who leads the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. “It’s true that the more you look for autism, the more you’ll find.”
UW panel encouraged physicians, scientists, journalists to promote public health.
Quoted: Jeniel Nett, MD, PhD, and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Medical Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, tells Salon Candida auris has emerged as a public health threat for many reasons.
Other members of the panel included an official from Janssen, a drug company that has manufactured opioids, and a researcher from the University of Wisconsin’s Pain & Policy Studies Group, which received $1.6 million in funding from Purdue from 1999 to 2010, according to a 2011 investigation by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The paper does not list any conflict-of-interest disclosures.
The School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin – Madison hosted the inaugural Wisconsin LGBTQ+ Health Summit on Thursday.
Michelle Kelly, a pediatric hospitalist at the American Family Children’s Hospital and an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, who helped develop a tool kit for implementing patient bedside portals at children’s hospitals, said parents are often the most engaged patient advocates.
A composite material discovered at UW-Madison, derived from cranberry chemicals and seafood shells, is being used to develop a CBD lotion for skin disorders.
Dr. Michael Miller, a recent Wisconsin Medical Society officer and past president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, said marijuana can be addictive, isn’t better than approved drugs and is unpredictable because purity and potency vary. Dr. Angela Janis, director of psychiatric services at UW-Madison’s University Health Services … said research has found considerable benefit in adults for pain, nausea and muscle spasms, and some studies suggest help for sleep disorders and neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease.
Noted: He underwent tests to see if he would be able to handle a transplant. On Oct. 25, he found out he was too high risk. But UW Health University Hospital agreed to take on his case, and two hours later, he was flying there on Flight for Life. He had to do the same set of tests. This time, he passed.
Noted: Interview with Jenny Kempf, a physical therapist at UW Health.
A growing number of students in the University of Wisconsin System say they are struggling with anxiety and depression while counseling services have increased on campuses but they haven’t kept pace with demand.
Several studies are examining “what allows some people to live a very long time with incurable cancer,” said Dr. Mark Burkard, who is leading one at the University of Wisconsin in Madison for breast cancer.
“These results suggest a self-reinforcing mechanism. Those who are in greater need of prenatal care because of the potential adverse effects of stress, triggered by long commutes, are under-using prenatal care, which could lead to even worse birth outcomes,” said Yang Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.
A Madison hospital was recognized by Newsweek as one of the best in the world. University Hospital was ranked in the first Top 100 Global Hospitals list, according to a release.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is at the center of the most ambitious medical research project of our time. One that will affect all of us.
UW is one of only 25 U.S. hospitals named to Newsweek’s Top 100 Global list, which includes hospitals from 11 countries.
An experimental cancer drug developed by Cellectar Biosciences, which has operations in Middleton and in New Jersey, will be studied on children and adolescents with a variety of solid tumors at UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital.
It was 40 years ago on Monday that UW Hospital moved from its old building at 1300 University Ave. to its current facility at 600 Highland Ave. The operation was carefully choreographed and involved moving 199 patients.
“When we deliver care to older adults, there’s nuanced ways that we have to kind of think about things,” said Dr. Steve Barczi, professor of medicine in the geriatrics division.
