Sexton’s praise for the care he received at UW Health underscores its designation as one of 303 LGBTQ care-affirming facilities in the 2017 Healthcare Equality Index by the Human Rights Campaign.
University Health Services is holding free flu shot clinics throughout the semester, and the first clinic took place Thursday on Bascom Hill.
Invisible disorders are seen on campus more often than students may realize, according to Lisa Webne-Behrman, a psychologist at University Health Services.
Exposing your child early on to pets and germs reduces their risk of developing asthma, according to a study.
Cockroaches, mice, cats and dogs can make asthma worse, but exposure to the pests and pets during infancy can lower the risk of developing the breathing disease, according to a national study led by a UW-Madison doctor.
More than 1,300 people pedaled through Sun Prairie Sunday as they took part in the second annual Carbone Cancer Center fundraiser known as “The Ride.”
Two-time breast cancer survivor Cissy Gerrigan is working on a “cooling cap” for people to combat hair loss during chemotherapy.
This Sunday, Sun Prairie will be packed with hundreds of cyclists all biking a UW Carbone Cancer Center annual fundraiser called ’The Ride’.Among them, a young researcher, riding not only for his patients but for a personal reason.
Noted: The article credits much of Madison’s reputation as a sports city to the University of Wisconsin-Madison sports teams, mentioning back-to-back Final Four runs in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament in 2014 and 2015.
The Paxman scalp cooling system, which received FDA approval in May will soon be available to breast cancer patients at UW Carbone Cancer Clinics.
Noted: The building houses the University of Wisconsin Cancer Center at ProHealth Care, a large physical therapy center, occupational health services, and heart and vascular services.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is hoping to graduate more registered nurses to help address the nursing shortage predicted within the next two decades.
Noted: Conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Pennsylvania, the five-year study found that a health clinic’s telephone-based e-visit platform boosted office visits by 6 percent. This meant that providers spent more time with those patients in the office, and ultimately led to a 15 percent drop in new patients.
“Meditation can help foster a mindful, rather than automatic or reactive response to chronic pain. Mindfulness builds awareness of the differences between pain sensations itself (i.e., sharp, shooting, stabbing) versus patterns of unhelpful reactions to pain such as emotional reactions or patterns of behavior. It disrupts the autopilot way of responding that isn’t effective and often causes additional suffering by giving us greater freedom to make healthier choices. Since difficult situations and painful stressors will always be a part of life, mindfully learning how to handle them can make all the difference,” says Shilagh A. Mirgain, UW Health Senior Psychologist.
The co-director of the UW Joint Replacement Program has helped develop a robotic assisted procedure to improve the outcomes of those surgeries.
At UW-Madison, 19.7 percent of students screened positive for an eating disorder.
Recent UW Graduate Mikayla Simonson was diagnosed with aplastic anemia earlier this summer.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s American Family Children’s Hospital will be one of 20 sites to offer one of the most promising and expensive new cancer drugs, one that will come with what amounts to a limited warranty.
Some smokers have more of an urge to light up right after they wake up, and UW-Madison researchers have identified a reason: genetic variation in a substance that breaks down nicotine in the brain.
UW Madison researcher Justin Sydnor and his colleagues studied a group of people of all ages and fitness levels who just joined a gym.
“Our stance is to go with what we know to be approved for smoking cessation,” said Amy Skora, an outreach specialist for UW-CTRI. “We see e-cigarettes as more of a harm reduction. We don’t want anyone on nicotine for the long term.”
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute and Medical College of Wisconsin have collectively been awarded $5.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to enroll patients in a nationwide precision medicine initiative.
UW Anxiety Disorders Program Director Dr. Marcia Slattery talks about what parents can do to minimize the anxiety students feel when it’s time to go back to school.
Quoted: Expressive writing is about emotional disclosure, said Dr. Adrienne Hampton, an assistant professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Wisconsin. “It can be trauma-focused, or it can be aspiration-focused,” Hampton said. “Really, the key is just that it involves either conscious or subconscious emotional processing around a given topic.”
Quoted: While the study didn’t look for dementia symptoms specifically, the authors point out that the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease is rising—and that minority communities are affected at disproportionate rates. “Adversity is a clear contributor to racial disparities in cognitive aging, and further study is imperative,” said lead author Megan Zuelsdorff, PhD, a research associate at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in a press release.
As the kids get back to school, lunches need to be packed again. Chef Julie Andrews RD of UW Health shows us a healthy, easy and delicious recipe for the kids — and maybe even you too — lasagna cups.
As students across the country are wrapping up their summer internships, there’s a unique program right here in Madison at UW Health that promotes workforce development through an equity lens.
UW Health previously housed its children’s hospital on the fourth floor of UW Hospital, built in the 1970s and designed for adults. In August 2007, it opened American Family Children’s Hospital, with six floors, separate from but connected to UW Hospital, and designed for children.
Medical “e-visits”—electronic communications between patients and physicians, primarily via secure messaging—have been touted as a low-cost method for doctors and patients to stay in touch without the time and expense involved with office visits. But, so far, they seem to be doing more harm than good, according to new research from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Walker on Tuesday was joined by University of Wisconsin Hospital doctors and other university leaders on Tuesday to talk about the statewide benefit the display screen manufacturing facility will bring to the state.
For most patients, the ability to send an email to their doctor can feel like a quick way to get their health concerns addressed. For doctors, these “e-visits” were touted as both a potential time-saver and a way to bring down health care costs. However, an updated study from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Madison-Wisconsin found e-visits were less of a time and money saver than previously believed.
Emails between patients and doctors lead to more office visits and don’t improve health, contrary to the intent of the increasingly popular exchanges, according to a UW-Madison study.
Derek Clark didn’t think twice when UW-Madison researchers asked him to take a health survey, and provide blood and urine samples, six years ago.
One innovative program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health aims to reverse the trend by training obstetrician/gynecologists in rural areas with the goal of having them practice in the area.
Quoted: Justin Sydnor, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies insurance and risk said that Molina did not offer plans in all areas of Wisconsin, but the company sold more ACA policies overall in the state than other companies. It was also the largest seller in particular areas, including Milwaukee County.
Sometimes in order to get to the gym, all we need is a little extra push. A new study suggests that money might not be a good enough push though. UW Madison researcher Justin Sydnor and his colleagues studied a group of people of all ages and fitness levels who just joined a gym.
The start of another school year, just a couple weeks away, can trigger some anxiety among younger students, but there are things you can do to help minimize your child’s concerns. Dr. Marcia Slattery, director of the UW Health Anxiety Disorder Program, said you’ll likely notice that younger school-age children may become more irritable as the onset of school approaches.
Brancel, who officially left office on Aug. 13, said that after Governor Scott Walker appoints a successor, he hoped that person would agree to serve on the board, to keep in close touch with its activities, both in Madison and at Barron.
“I see the lab as more than regulatory,” Brancel said. “It is a viable, public facility, not only important to animal health, but also in its relationship to human health.”
Quoted: “The hope would have been that by targeting this, you could especially capture some of the people who early on fall off and get them to keep going for longer,” said Justin Sydnor, one of the report’s authors and a risk-management and insurance professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “These incentive programs did increase slightly how often people went, but only by about one visit, and then it really has no lasting impact.”
Noted: Author 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.
She’s the first Hmong-American nurse in the country to earn her PhD, and she did it at UW Madison.
The Affordable Care Act, or Obamcare, expanded Medicaid access to more Americans, which has cost the government billions of dollars. But a new UW study says that by expanding Medicaid coverage, the government is saving money in other areas.
As students across the country are wrapping up their summer internships, there’s a unique program right here in Madison at UW Health that promotes workforce development through an equity lens.
Expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act cost the federal government billions of dollars. But a University of Wisconsin-Madison study says it also saves money in a different federal safety net program.
A smile, like a picture, is worth a thousand words. Although most commonly associated with happiness, smiles can indicate nervousness, embarrassment and even misery. To add to their mystique and versatility, smiles can express sophisticated messages that influence the behavior of others in social situations.
Nine specialties ranked in nation’s top 50.
The University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is the top rated hospital in the state once again, according to rankings released by U.S. News & World Report in its annual Best Hospitals guide.
More than 15 million American adults — 8.4 percent of men and 4.2 percent of women — suffer from some form of alcohol-use disorder, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (NIAAA). The federal health agency estimates that the annual economic cost of alcohol misuse hovers around $249 billion once one weighs the tolls on our health care system, public safety and productivity, to say nothing of the inestimable emotional cost.
Chelsea Adams attended the UW School of Nursing. After graduating, she became a transplant nurse at UW Hospital.
Quoted: Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin, dismissed concerns about the work leading to designer babies.
Noted: Specifically, states with an increasing concentration of non-citizen residents lacking proper papers experienced “reductions in drug arrests, drug overdose deaths, and DUI arrests,” writes a research team led by sociologist Michael Light of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing has received a $1.3 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to develop a program to recruit and retain 30 Native American nursing school students.
Tammy Mocarski remembers her surgeon leaning over her as she woke up in recovery after having what appeared to be a harmless, pea-sized tumor removed from the crease below her left breast.
Willy Street has also teamed up with the UW Health Northeast Family Medical Center, which screens for food insecurity. The center distributes a six-month package of $124 worth of food vouchers to Willy North.
An UW-Health water aerobics class is helping people stay healthy but in a new way. They have a unique program helping people who are deaf and hard of hearing in our area.
Two horses died of a severe, mosquito-borne disease in the Tomah area this week, according to the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Lab.
A program at UW Health is promoting diversity in the medical field, by providing students from underrepresented communities with internship opportunities.
UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health is another agent in moving health care toward a holistic model. As the first school in the nation to integrate medicine and public health in 2005, the school has recognized that care goes beyond a diagnosis.
If you’re involved in high school athletics, you know the scene. There’s increasing pressure to specialize in a single sport and play it year-round.
Stress affects the body in many ways: tense muscles, heart problems, depression and more. Now, a preliminary study from the University of Wisconsin medical school has found stress can also have a negative impact on how our brain works as we age.
