Noted: Gemma is undergoing extensive treatment and is set to have bone, skin and fur replacement. Help will come from the University of Wisconsin – Madison Veterinary Care hospital, along with a fur donation from a Seattle-based company. UWM doctors will 3D print a section of plastic to repair a hole in Gemma’s snout from the severe caustic burns.
A former UW Health doctor who resigned in 2017 amid allegations of sexual misconduct involving a patient was charged Thursday with felony and misdemeanor counts of sexual assault.
Noted: The $75,000 grant places the recovery coaches in emergency departments at Ascension’s St. Joseph’s, Franklin and St. Francis hospitals for a one-year pilot and is part of a larger effort from the Wisconsin Voices for Recovery — a statewide peer-run network from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies — funded by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
UW Health, the health care system for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently hired three primary care doctors who had worked across town, said Dr. Sandra Kamnetz, vice chairwoman of clinical care for the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: Other colleges and universities applied tobacco-free policies years ago. Alverno College was the first in Wisconsin to become tobacco-free in June 2007. UW-Madison, Milwaukee Area Technical College and Marquette University followed.
New work by two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers provides crucial insight into a major medical mystery: how a protein that normally protects cells from tumors is induced to abandon its mission.
UW-Madison researchers have discovered one way a gene that usually protects against tumors can, when mutated, spur cancers of the breast, ovaries, lung and bladder.
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.”
“There’s no reason to restrict early introduction to allergenic foods,” said a co-author of a new clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Dr. Frank Greer. He’s a professor emeritus of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The study — released last month by Republican lawmakers at a news conference at the state Capitol — was by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and the Center for Research On the Wisconsin Economy, or CROWE, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As UW Health Med Flight prepares to expand to Portage in July, the medical helicopter service is switching the company that provides its helicopters and pilots.
A UW Health anesthesiologist is suing the former head of her department and the UW Board of Regents, alleging unequal pay, unequal opportunity and a hostile work environment for female doctors.
UW Health, the health care system for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently hired three primary care doctors who had worked across town, said Dr. Sandra Kamnetz, vice chairwoman of clinical care for the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health.
“She will donate her kidney. It will fly somewhere else in the country. Then that patient’s donor will have a kidney go on a plane to somewhere else,” UW Health transplant surgeon Dr. Josh Mezrich explained to “To the Best of Our Knowledge” host Anne Strainchamps.
About 15 years ago, David Van Sickle worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a “disease detective,” looking for the preliminary signs of epidemics. That’s when he became fascinated with the curious case of a community-wide asthma attack in Barcelona, Spain.
Noted: 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.” (During the operation, the patient may also be given painkillers to ease their recovery when they wake up from surgery.)
A University of Wisconsin-Madison laboratory is set to resume experiments that could build the foundation of an early warning system for flu pandemics.
Hotline is first in the nation to help primary-care physicians manage addiction patients.
Mary Landry hopes for the same open-access idea in women’s health that exists in the primary care clinic.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is one of 10 academic and health care institutions in the nation to be invited by the National Institutes of Health to create the largest health database in history.
Noted: This estimate takes into account measures already implemented by the state’s two medical schools to increase the pipeline of future doctors. For instance, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has a program called the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine where students receive training through regional medical centers based in Green Bay, Marshfield and La Crosse.
Several imaging agents have been developed to monitor and examine changes in PR levels, and researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health now studied if the 18F-fluorofuranylnorprogesterone (18F-FFNP) imaging agent could be used for that purpose.
Demand for health education workers in Wisconsin predicted to grow by 13 percent by 2024
Quoted: In addition, as noted by Bob Enright, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has studied forgiveness for decades, true forgiveness includes empathy and compassion toward the injuring individual before you can forgive completely.
Quoted: One major factor is that fewer teens are having babies. Teen births have dropped 60 percent over a decade, said David Egan-Robertson, of the UW-Madison Applied Population Laboratory.
“And in 2017, for the first time, teen births fell below 4 percent of total births,” he said. “So that’s quite a significant change. It’s been a very long-term process, but that’s a noticeable change in that age group.
“It’s multi-factorial,” said Dr. Jane Mahoney, a UW-Madison geriatrician who has done extensive research on falls. “You add in alcohol, winter weather … reporting differences … those all play a role.”
When older adults are hospitalized, they often don’t walk much because nurses fear falls and administrators fear financial penalties related to falls, according to Barbara King, an associate professor at UW-Madison’s School of Nursing.
In a time when mental health care resources are hard to come by, especially in rural communities, a University of Wisconsin-Madison certificate program aims to better treatment statewide.
Quoted: Some words of warning: You may need to shift your mindset (and workouts) if you’re used to training at an intense level. “You may have less strength or endurance during the postpartum period,” says Jill Barnes, Ph.D., an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is a time to really listen to your body and how it is recovering.”
Quoted: Dr. James Conway of the University of Wisconsin tells the Ideas lab:
“You get the wrong person getting off a plane in the wrong place, and it’s like dropping a match into a can of gasoline.” Conway is director of the Office of Global Health at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is giving Kenzi Valentyn the recognition she deserves by naming two research grants in her honor, from now until funding no longer supports it.
A healthcare offshoot of Time’s Up will officially launch on March 1 to try to bring safety and equity to the workplace. Several healthcare providers have joined the effort as signatories including the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
VERONA, Wis. – When you talk about Kenzi Valentyn, no last name is really needed.
The Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program started a farmer suicide-prevention project this past month. The effort, funded by a $50,000 grant from the University of Wisconsin-School of Medicine and Public Health’s Wisconsin Partnership Program, was prompted by an increase in stories about suicides or suicidal thoughts among farmers, said Wally Orzechowski, executive director.
Researchers at UW-Madison asked 100 expectant mothers to answer questions about their mental health during their third trimester.
After voting unanimously against UHS’ budget in previous meeting, ASM voted unanimously to form mental health committee.
UW-Madison’s new director of University Health Services brings a national reputation to campus.
Baggott to bring diverse experiences to role as first-generation college student, veteran.
“This study highlighted the importance of tracking. There was a strong benefit of doing it three times a day,” said Alisa Sunness, a registered dietitian at the University of Wisconsin Health in Madison, who was not involved in the study. “It can work.”
As part of the recommendations, SSFC will ask UHS to add an additional seven health care providers, two more than the original budget had asked for. Three of these must have individual specializations for Survivor Services, LGBTQ students, and students of color.
“Just being raised on a farm is, in fact, correlated with changes in the gut,” said investigator Julia Thorsen, MD, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Former Badger football linebacker Chris Borland returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Thursday evening to discuss meditation and its potential benefits for athletes and beyond.
Quoted: Dr. Aleksandra Zgierska, a family doctor who practices and researches addiction medicine at UW Health, remains skeptical of CBD. “The research on CBD oil has not been sufficient to say that this is evidence-based treatment for x, y or z,” she says.
Noted: Craig, Kapenga and Stroebel were at Tuesday’s news conference to tout a study by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy.
A large study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison bears this out.Researchers asked almost 29,000 people to rate their levels of stress as well as how much they believed this stress influenced their health.
Dr. Alaa Abd-Elsayed, medical director for pain services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, agrees that opioid prescribing went from one extreme to the other.
Three people died and 11 became ill in November at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison. Tests of the hospital’s hot-water systems revealed elevated levels of the bacteria. The hospital applied high doses of chlorine and continues to test water systems. The hospital, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and CDC are investigating. A report has not been completed.
Quoted: Kapinus’ story is not unusual for young female athletes, according to Dr. Pamela Lang with UW Health. “It seems that anywhere from kind of twice as likely to even four times more likely to have ACL tears with women compared to men.”
UW Health distinguished psychologist shares four ways to bring more love into your life.
Quoted: “I think it’s a very significant advance,” said Mike Bassetti, an associate professor in the department of human oncology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “Up until this point, there has been no way to directly visualize the tumor and the surrounding tissue as we are treating the tumor.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are demanding change in mental health services on campus.
“Only two of the five recent, large randomized trials have compared carotid stenting and carotid endarterectomy in asymptomatic patients,” Jon S. Matsumura, MD, chairman of the division of vascular surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said during a presentation.
Equity and Inclusion committee also started discussing implementing more blue buttons across campus.
Within the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the Wisconsin Partnership Program aims to improve the well-being of people in Wisconsin.
ASM chair Billy Welsh expressed concerns over lack of transparency during UHS’ budget formulation process.
Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Chair Laura Downer spoke out against what she believes is UHS’s lackluster response to the issue of mental health on campus. “UHS and the UW administration has put enough thought and effort into this situation to prepare excuses for why their budget should not expand mental health resources,” Downer said.
Quoted “We expected a decrease in mortality as a result. That is not what we have seen,” said Gina Bryan, an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing who worked with the Governor’s Task Force on Opioid Abuse.
“We expected a decrease in mortality as a result. That is not what we have seen,” said Gina Bryan, an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing who worked with the Governor’s Task Force on Opioid Abuse.
Still, Anderson, who leads the Metabolism of Aging Research Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is always happy to share the latest news about the benefits of caloric restriction.
Suzanna Waters Castillo, a distinguished faculty associate with the continuing studies division at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specializes in aging and long-term care.
