Aleksandra Zgierska is an associate professor of Family Medicine at UW-Madison. She agrees that there is a problem with opioid abuse in the U.S., but she has concerns about blanket policies.
In addition to the trivia, several great prizes were put up for bid. Former Badger hoops players like Josh Gasser and Alando Tucker were in attendance, to go against fans in a shooting contest.
Scott Kirkpatrick’s drawings line the hallway leading to UW Hospital’s transplant clinic. He knew that walkway all too well.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke at the Associated Students of Madison meeting Wednesday night to discuss issues regarding the need for updated mental health resources. Blank described the demand for mental health services as “skyrocketing.” Vice Chancellor Lori Reesor has commissioned a task force to determine how the university can meet this demand, Blank said.
Seeking to provide more support for students of color, University Health Services hired two additional mental health providers of color last year, making the total providers specifically hired for students of color now five. Arlyn Gonzalez Castillo is one of these few providers, serving Spanish-speaking students.
Yancey is the first full-time director for the Native American Center for Health Professions, located within the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A Wausau woman has sued a UW-Madison plastic surgeon, accusing him of sexual exploitation and medical negligence in giving her breast implants and a tummy tuck last year.
Dr. Jonathan Temte is trying to find a way to curb the spread and he’s using Oregon school district students as his guinea pigs. The Oregon resident, whose children went through the district, leads six University of Wisconsin health researchers in the ORCHARDS study.
John W. Siebert previously had medical license suspended in New York.
Noted: Donna Friedsam, the health policy programs director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Population Health Institute, spoke on the Jan. 25, 2019, episode of Wisconsin Public Television’s Here & Now about the bill and how it compares to the regulations set out in ACA.
Associated Students of Madison Chair Billy Welsh started out the meeting with a plea for more mental health services on campus, recounting his personal struggle. “Expanding mental health resources is an issue I feel very passionate about. Mental health problems affect so many students across our campus. Unfortunately, these services are also one of the areas where our university is at its weakest,” Welsh said.
A Wausau woman is suing a UW Health plastic surgeon after she says he put in breast implants of the wrong size and inappropriately touched her during follow-up visits.
Recognizing that forcing a yes–no choice on this delicate question is not ideal, we partnered with Dr. Katie Deming, a radiation oncologist at Kaiser Permanente, and Dr. Jeffrey Landercasper, clinical adjunct professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, to conduct our own study of how current and former patients perceive the term “cancer survivor.”
Quoted: Zgierska’s an associate professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and is also on the board of the Wisconsin Society of Addiction Medicine.
Noted: So she started SODA chapters at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which formed strong bonds with Versiti, formerly the Blood Center of Wisconsin, and UW OTD, the UW Organ and Tissue Donation program.
“This is valid research, and I think it’s important research,” says R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “It has value not only for the possible use in the future for some number of conditions that would involve a live birth, but it has value for basic understanding of embryology, basic understanding of development,” Charo says.
Chicken thighs: they’re an integral part of the chicken and man-alive are they ever delicious (shh, don’t tell the chickens.) But that’s not all. Thanks to some enterprising doctors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, chicken thighs have found a new utility… in the field of microsurgery.
Dr. Mezrich’s book braids unflinching medical history with frank clinical memoir. A transplant surgeon at the University of Wisconsin, he got his first inkling of his future vocation when he volunteered in medical school for the New York Firefighters Skin Bank, “an ‘elite’ group that would head out in the middle of the night to skin dead people.” The scare quotes around “elite” and the brazen verb “to skin” are typical of Dr. Mezrich’s rueful candor.
Minutes. If you haven’t heard that’s how long before this cold air could give you frostbite.
“Or less with really cold wind chills it really can happen very quickly,” said Apple Bodemer, an associate professor of dermatology at UW-Madison.
Noted: UW Health dermatologist Apple Bodemer joined Wisconsin’s Morning News with warning signs and more.
Amy Gilliland believes that a positive birth experience has a lasting effect on the lives of both mother and baby. Gilliland should know: As a research fellow in the U.W.-Madison’s School of Human Ecology, she studies and teaches about the psychological needs of people during the birth experience.
UW Health is reporting eight cold-related injuries during a cold snap that has reached life-threateningly low temperatures.
“There’s plenty of evidence” that even without an explicit memory of surgery, humans can form implicit or subconscious memories under anesthesia, said Dr. Aeyal Raz, an anesthesiologist at the University of Wisconsin.
“Stroke due to atrial fibrillation tends to be quite severe,” said Dr. Craig January of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who helped draft the new guidelines published in Circulation.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is leading one of the world’s largest health research efforts to personalize medical treatment for people of all backgrounds. Through the NIH’s All of Us Research Program, the agency is seeking one million volunteers to build a database of health and genetic information to speed up research breakthroughs intended to improve care.
Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program started a farmer suicide prevention project this month. The effort, funded by a $50,000 grant from the UW 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.
At University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health’s Diversity Summit Thursday, the keynote speaker sketched the racial tensions and inequities present within the field of public health, citing studies from life expectancy rates to demographic income disparities.
Noted: “Expanding naloxone access increases opioid abuse and opioid-related crime, and does not reduce opioid-related mortality. In fact, in some areas, particularly the Midwest, expanding naloxone access has increased opioid-related mortality. Opioid-related mortality also appears to have increased in the South and most of the Northeast as a result of expanding naloxone access,” wrote Jennifer Doleac, PhD, Texas A&M University, and co-author Anita Mukherjee, PhD, University of Wisconsin.
According to a child psychologist from the University of Wisconsin Madison, noise can act as a hindrance in the learning abilities of a child, especially a language. Constant background noise can lead to reduced ability of understanding words that the child already knows, and also of learning new ones.
Noted: Things are slowly changing at the institutional level, says Mel Freitag, diversity officer and associate clinical professor at the UW–Madison School of Nursing. Today’s incoming students have been raised with more evidence-based and anecdotal education about gender identity, and they’re pointing out the gaps in class, a phenomenon known as “upteaching.”
There is nothing magical about six months, according to Dr. Michael Lucey, medical director of the University of Wisconsin liver transplant program. He said it shows a poor understanding of alcohol abuse as a “very complex behavioral disorder.”
Surgeons like me, who work in the field of organ transplant, have been repeating a cliché for decades about the idea of using other animals’ organs to replace failing ones in humans: “It’s the future, and it always will be.” By: Joshua Mezrich
Before he found out he needed a new liver, Herbert Heneman was not your typical corner-of-the-dive-bar alcoholic. Heneman, the Dickson-Bascom professor emeritus of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. He had a happy childhood and a very supportive family. He describes his parents as somewhat heavy drinkers, particularly his father, but he remembers no health issues, legal problems, or family crises related to alcohol.
This post is adapted from Mezrich’s new book,When Death Becomes Life: Notes From a Transplant Surgeon.
Quoted: “We found that the addition of piperine significantly improved the bioavailability of resveratrol,” says Nihal Ahmad, a professor of dermatology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who has studied the effect piperine has on the body’s absorption of resveratrol.
Quoted: While some see telemedicine as the the future of medical care in rural Wisconsin, the director of the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health said it won’t replace the need to bring more physicians to rural areas.
“Telemedicine is an important piece of the puzzle, but even more important is that physician or primary care person in the communities,” said Dr. Joseph Holt.
Noted: Mezrich is an associate professor in the division of multiorgan transplantation at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. He reflects on his experiences as a transplant surgeon and shares stories from the operating room in his book, When Death Becomes Life.
Quoted: “The scientific literature is just beginning to tease that apart,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Matt Hirshberg, who works at the Center for Healthy Minds. “This whole area of research is really quite young.”
“Chronic Pain: The Patient and Family Journey,” is edited by Alaa Abd-Elsayed, who heads up UW Health’s pain clinic on South Park Street.
Quoted: Charles Raison, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that exercise can provide a transient “hit” to the immune system that triggers other regulatory cytokines to dampen down the response, which may be one of the reasons exercise is such a powerful tool for improved health.
“When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon” is written by UW Hospital Transplant Surgeon Dr. Joshua Mezrich.
Quoted: Regarding the use of melatonin with young children, I shared your question with Dipesh Navsaria, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Josh Mezrich’s book, “When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon,” gives an overview of transplant history and lays bare Mezrich’s trepidations and triumphs as a kidney and liver transplant surgeon at UW Hospital, where he has been on staff since 2007.
Health insurance expert Justin Sydnor, an assistant professor of actuarial science, risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said there could be modest benefits to this regulation.
.Yi Fuxian, a researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Su Jian, an economist at Peking University, co-authored a paper suggesting that China has entered a long-term downward population spiral. The experts warned that the past year will be “remembered as a historical turning point for [the] Chinese population,” arguing that China is “degenerating into a small group of the old and the weak thanks to wrong demographic policies,” the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.
Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a long-standing critic of China’s family planning policy, and Su Jian, an economist at Peking University, co-authored a paper arguing that China may have started to see a long-lasting fall in its population.
Noted: Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, FAAP, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers may have come up with a new solution for treating morbid obesity: A small device that when surgically attached onto a person’s stomach can make someone feel more full after eating.
If you resolve to meditate or exercise this year — and follow through — you might reduce your chance of getting a cold or the flu, according to a UW-Madison study.
A tiny weight-loss device developed by UW-Madison researchers could someday be implanted on people’s stomachs to trick their brains into thinking they’re full.
Noted: Annie Stumpf is a medical student at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Noted: Lipscomb said she and her team — Terence Johnson at the University of Notre Dame, Laura Schechter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Jean-Francois Houde at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — did not set out to oversee the system long-term. The professors worked with an NGO and handed the project off to Senegal’s government after finishing their research in 2016.
Noted: List includes story about research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Waisman Center.
Adults living with autism spectrum disorder may face a higher risk of developing certain health issues — such as cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive problems — than the rest of the population.
A new study finds University of Wisconsin-Madison Division 1 athletes are in better mental shape than their classmates.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists believe they may have come up with a way to stem the tide of obesity-related disease and illness and improve quality of life for hundreds of millions of people worldwide who suffer from weight problems. These scientists have created what they say is a safe and easily implantable weight-loss device that in lab experiments, aided rats in shedding nearly 40% of their body weight.
A helicopter ambulance cancelled a flight to pick up a crash victim in Columbia County on Tuesday evening after someone shined a laser at the aircraft, injuring the pilot and forcing its crew to abort the mission.
The Sheriff’s Office said the Med Flight was called to Scott Township at 5 p.m. after a 17-year-old boy was seriously injured in an UTV crash near Crown Road.
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a small implant that could prove to be a major breakthrough in the battle against obesity. Using the recent strategy of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), the implant has led to a 40 percent body weight loss in rats.
A new study has found the less access student athletes have to athletic trainers, the less likely they are to have concussions properly identified and managed.
Quoted: Students who wouldn’t normally smoke are vaping, said Lori Anderson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Nursing and expert on teen risk-taking behavior.
Three patients who contracted Legionnaires’ disease at the University of Wisconsin Hospital (UW Health) have died, CBS Madison affiliate WISC-TV reports.
