Category: Health

Students at UW-Madison will be able to apply historical, cultural and philosophical thinking to health care studies in a new certificate that studies biosciences through a humanities lens.

MADISON, Wis. – At 81 you wouldn’t think Marian Ehernberg would still want to be working, but according to Ehernberg, her job is one of the things that keeps her going.

At 81 you wouldn’t think Marian Ehernberg would still want to be working, but according to Ehernberg, her job is one of the things that keeps her going.

Noted: The frequency with which physician assistants and nurse practitioners take skin biopsies — compared with M.D.’s — was the subject of a 2015 study at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Based on 1,102 biopsies from 743 patients, researchers found that physician assistants and nurse practitioners performed nearly six biopsies for every skin cancer found — more than twice the number performed by physicians.

“We had a unique opportunity here in Wisconsin because the community of Beaver Dam has been participating in this eye study since the late 1980s,”  said Karen Cruickshanks, lead author of the study and professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “Community response has been tremendous,” said Cruickshanks.

Doctor attended couple’s wedding.

UW Health, the hospital system affiliated with the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is spending $1 million on alternatives to Baxter’s saline bags, including renting hundreds of drug pumps that can deliver medicines via syringe and buying other drugs in premixed bags, says Philip Trapskin, UW’s program director for medication use strategy.

About two years after a survey revealed that 22 percent of UW-Madison students had sought mental health counseling in the past year, University Health Services released an online mental health service program for students and faculty.

Noted: Chiara Cirelli, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the paper, published work earlier this year suggesting that while we sleep, our brains tidy up and organize the different connections between their cells. This process, she told Quartz earlier this year, is essential for our neurons and memory formations.

Final decision will be voted on Thursday.

Ever sleep poorly and then walk out of the house without your keys? Or space out while driving to work and nearly hit a stalled car?

The ex-husband of a former UW Health billing specialist, 15 of his family members, one friend and the estates of two deceased family members, are suing UW Health and the man’s ex-wife, alleging that she invaded their privacy by accessing thousands of their medical records over a period of more than 10 years.

For Angela Byars-Winston, becoming the first Black tenure-track, full-professor in the UW-Madison Department of Medicine in September was just the another stepping stone in her career.

Noted: Dhruv explains research by professors from Yale and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who looked at Section 508 waivers that determined the rate at which Medicare paid individual hospitals. They found that hospitals in districts with GOP members of Congress who supported the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act (which authorized these waivers) were seven times more likely to receive a waiver, and those hospitals saw higher Medicare payments.

A quick Google of meditation centres in Hong Kong shows them popping up from the northern reaches of the New Territories to the hills of Lantau to dense urban areas on Hong Kong Island. The city already has an affinity for the ancient practice, but fresh developments at America’s Centre for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could amp things up even further.

Hundreds of runners braved the cold and rain at the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path in Madison Sunday morning for the second annual Red Tutu Trot.

A professor of medical physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Thomas “Rock” Mackie co-invented TomoTherapy (now owned by California-based company Accuray), a radiation therapy system that introduced and enabled daily imaging capabilities for cancer treatments.

Provocative new research discovers children living in neighborhoods where incomes are low and fewer adults have bachelor’s degrees, are less likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared to kids from more affluent neighborhoods.

A telehealth study being conducted by UW Health, so far, has completely eliminated hospital readmissions for postpartum hypertension.

A pateint’s doctor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Carbone Cancer Center, Dr. Lisa Barroilhet says, PARP inhibitors are making a difference.

UW Health put on the training event at one of its Middleton offices. It taught doctors, nurses, physicians’ assistants, EMS staff and other health care workers the best practices for teaching citizens the program.

“If you would’ve told me five years ago when I was working on Grey’s that I would be here, I would’ve been like — you’re lying,” said Olivia Rater.  Yet, there she was sitting in a lounge chair in the lobby of UW School of Medicine and Public Health, waiting for her 8:30 a.m. class to begin.

Dr. Mark Schroeder, a longtime anesthesiologist at UW Health, has surrendered his license after the state launched an investigation into a complaint about his behavior.

“There is a shift from a faculty version to a student-targeted version,” Valerie Donovan, a suicide prevention coordinator for UHS, said.