University Health Services distributed a survey to 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students Monday in an effort to better understand the health behaviors of UW-Madison students.
At UW Health, opioid doses dropped 11 percent at clinics that paid special attention to urine drug testing and other monitoring of patients in 2016, while doses went up 8 percent at other clinics, a recent UW study found.
Noted: Plastic surgeon John Siebert had sex with a patient in New York, got his license suspended for three years and was permanently ordered to have a chaperone in the room with any female patients. But he operates free of medical board restrictions in Wisconsin. In fact, he was appointed to an endowed chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded in part by billionaire Diane Hendricks, a patient and a major political contributor to Gov. Scott Walker.
The state of Wisconsin is facing a shortage of nurses due to an aging population, and the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Nursing wants to help fill that gap with a new accelerated nursing program.
Noted: Their new goal will be no small feat. They are working to create the endowment at UW Health for transplant research, with the help of a $500,000 donation. UW-Madison donors John and Tashia Morgridge will give $500,000 to create an endowment in Tony’s name, but to get the money the Arenas family must match that donation in five years.
Noted: Dr. Margaret Schwarze, a surgeon and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said that older patients often don’t feel the financial pain of surgery because insurance pays most of the cost.
In an effort to raise awareness for campus contraception resources, University Health Services and a student organization are working together on a series of contraceptive workshops slated to take place next month.
Noted: A study conducted by the Wisconsin School of Business found that increased use of e-visits might have unintended consequences.
“Our study shows that giving patients email-like e-visit access to their doctors, does not reduce the patients’ use of office or phone visits,” said Hessam Bavafa, study author and Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management. “In fact, we find that e-visits lead to more office visits without obvious improvements in patient health. We also found that doctors accepted fewer new patients after they started using e-visits.”
At the University of Wisconsin- Madison School of Nursing, a new accelerated program was started to help end the nursing shortage.
UW Health is making history in the state this month opening the only clinic focused solely on lupus patients and addressing their needs.
Nearly half of all undergraduate Native American women on the UW-Madison campus have experienced sexual assault, according to a 2015 campus survey on the issue.
Considering his emotional investment in the never-ending battle against cancer, it should surprise no one that Bo Ryan decided to include a $500,000 donation to cancer research in his will.
Caregivers of cancer patients are just as likely to be depressed as the cancer patients themselves, but a new study finds that they’re less likely to seek treatment. We talk with a researcher about the study and what we can do to take better care of caregivers. Interview with Kristin Litzelman from the School of Human Ecology.
Blank will hear committee’s proposals on March 23.
While UW-Madison student finance committee representatives deliberate over a recommendation to offer new types of free emergency contraceptives to survivors of sexual assault, other Big Ten universities are varied in their policies concerning the matter.
U.S. News and World Report has stripped UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital of its No. 23 ranking in pediatric urology last year after the hospital acknowledged treating fewer patients than it reported.
One vaccine in the works makes use of one of the less-changeable parts of the flu virus called M2. The ReDee vaccine made by FluGen, a spinoff from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is not meant to be a completely universal vaccine, but might protect better against a range of flu strains.
Dr. Karla Esbona, from the UW Carbone Cancer Center, talks about a new research study that looks at an FDA approved drug that may improve the prognosis for patients with dense breast tissue.
Quoted: “They have to really account for thinking about it to a much higher level,” said Director of Performance Nutrition for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nick Aures.
Erin Davisson is one of the signature faces of Local 5, but what you might not know is that her life was saved thanks to an organ donor. A very special thank you goes to UW Health for sharing this feature story with Local 5.
The program started on Dec. 17 and Kuhn says it has already helped a handful of individuals in both locations.
Aurora Health Care stated in the press release that the program was made possible by a grant from the Wisconsin Voices for Recovery (WIVFR) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies. The grant is for two years.
A 29-car pileup along Highway 151 in Verona on Monday morning left a chaotic scene out on the street as doctors inside UW Hospital’s emergency department quickly worked as they expected dozens of victims.
A study of ten patients led by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which developed the device, showed that applying the vibrations at the wrist instantly increased touch sensation.
“When cancer patients spend more on their cancer treatment and other health care, they have less to spend on activities they enjoy and other needs, which can negatively affect their well-being,” said coauthor Joohyun Park, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy.“It turns out that financial burden is directly related to health and well-being,” Park told Reuters Health by email. “The more a cancer patient spends on health care, the worse the quality of life and mental health.”
An effort bringing help to overdose survivors before they leave the hospital is expanding to UW Hospital in Madison. It’s a program already in place at other hospitals in the state. Tonya Kraege is program coordinator and recovery coach manager for Safe Communities, which is working with UW Hospital.
The study found that spouses of cancer patients who experience depression are 33 percent less likely to obtain treatment for depression than people battling depression whose spouses do not have cancer.
The Alliance is partnering with the U-W’s School of Nursing to create these rooms locally. They hope to have them completed by March and implement them by 2018.
The program is funded through a grant from the Wisconsin Voices for Recovery and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies, which focuses on helping communities in the battle against opioid abuse across the state.
This silence has real consequences. Almost 30% of college-age women can’t identify their clitoris on an anatomy test, according to a study from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students who go to University Health Services to visit mental health providers and participate in group therapy sessions can look forward to an increase in rooms.
University of Wisconsin researchers are hoping to expand a program that involves coaching primary care doctors to follow opioid prescribing guidelines as part of the fight against the state’s opioid epidemic.
As Wisconsinites push through a hard flu season, public-health officials are following a distinct mix of influenza strains and worrying about the effectiveness of this year’s vaccines, but they’re also thinking a lot about an intricate disease-tracking network that’s been built up over time.
UW Health is bringing social workers, pharmacists and doctors together in a new clinic for lupus, an autoimmune disease that often strikes women at childbearing age.
Opioid doses dropped 11 percent at UW Health clinics that paid special attention to urine drug testing and other monitoring of patients, while doses went up 8 percent at other UW clinics, a new study found.
Quoted: Dr. Arnold Wald, a professor of gastroenterology at the University of Wisconsin, is one of many who regularly request tests of patients’ vitamin D levels. “I do check vitamin D deficiency in many of my GI patients and I’m often rewarded by finding it,” he told Healthline. “It’s very inexpensive to order and very inexpensive to treat.”
UW Health is bringing social workers, pharmacists and doctors together in a new clinic for lupus, an autoimmune disease that often strikes women at childbearing age.
Noted: A different approach to the universal vaccine is under way at FluGen, a biotech firm in Madison, Wisconsin. Backed by both government and VC funding, the company is working with technology first discovered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Dr. Gabriele Neumann and exclusively licensed to FluGen.
A local nonprofit clinic that provides uninsured women with free gynecological care has seen a significant increase in the number of patient referrals since it opened in 2014 — and student organizations at UW-Madison are helping them fund the effort.
The Patient Preferences Project at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has developed and is testing a list of useful questions for older patients. Even if your local hospital doesn’t have a program like those at Duke, Michigan Medicine or UCSF, you can ask your surgeon to address these questions.
For the past 20 years, University Health Services at UW-Madison recorded the total number of students that died each year. This amounts to 192 total students from April 1998 to 2017, 56 of whom died in the last five years.
University Health Services has extended the deadline for students to receive free flu vaccinations after a “particularly bad” strain of flu appeared on campus.
Dr. Luis Fernandez, UW’s surgical director of liver transplants, said the hospital expanded its living liver donor program in recent years to help patients who may not be able to get deceased donor transplants quickly enough to save their lives.
Noted: Ann McKee, an Appleton native who got her undergraduate degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been on the forefront of the research, noticing the degradation of a boxer’s brain years ago, she said. She was fascinated by the patterns of CTE, and how it affected brains.
Riverside’s death rates from cancer, liver disease, and heart disease are well above the state average, for example. In 2016, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranked each California county by overall health outcomes, and pegged Riverside at 40th out of 57. (Fellow Inland Empire counties San Bernardino and Imperial counties fared even worse.)
A program at UW Hospital is helping patients move up on the list quicker.
Since its creation dozens of students have gone through the program, and all of them have selected residencies in urban areas. Milwaukee currently has up to 50 TRIUMPH students a year practicing medicine within its underserved communities.
Health officials at UW-Madison say they don’t know how about a third of students who died while going to school there actually died.
More than half of hunters treated for falls from tree stands at UW Hospital suffered one or more spinal fractures, including at least five who had paralyzing injuries, a new study says.
Up to 1,000 smokers from the Madison and Milwaukee areas are being sought for a study of whether using a pill and a patch together, or taking the pill twice as long as usual, makes it easier for people to quit smoking.
Noted: Sarah Van Riet, a dietician at UW Health, sees no long-term benefits to doing a juice cleanse. Neither she nor Kohls would recommend it to patients, though they understand the appeal of a quick fix.
Four years ago, Inda Lampkins, a 42-year-old Milwaukee mother diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, took one of the most difficult and most important steps to improve her health. She quit smoking.
Wisconsin Healthy Communities Designation will be recognizing communities across the state for their work to improve health. There are gold-, silver-, and bronze-level designations available, each with different criteria.
Oncologist at UW-Madison Dr. Stephen Rosenberg is doing something to try to help ease some of the concerns that patients have when they’re diagnosed.
Wausau,Wis.(WSAW)– While gun deaths continue to rise in Wisconsin a new Study by researchers at UW Madison show nearly three of four gun deaths are suicide by white men ages 45 and older in rural parts of the state.
The Wisconsin Healthy Communities Designation, launched by the UW Population Health Institute, plans to gather letters of interest through the end of January, accept applications in the spring and announce its first designations in the summer.
There isn’t enough evidence to claim that Zika virus causes abnormally small heads in babies of infected mothers, according to a UW-Madison study that challenges government findings.
Events, including Lily’s Luaus held each January since 2009, have raised more than $1.2 million. About $450,000 has been given out in grants and fellowships. Another $100,000 grant will be awarded at the next Lily’s Luau, scheduled for Jan. 20 at UW-Madison’s Union South.
New grant program invests nearly $400,000 in innovative community health solutions.
Now, a study at UW Health and the Madison’s Veterans Hospital is seeing if veterans with a parental history of Alzheimer’s might be helped by a high-dose, prescription variety of a common supplement: fish oil.
Psychologist and author Daniel Goleman—well-known for his 1995 book “Emotional Intelligence”—spent almost two years combing through more than 6,000 academic studies on meditation with a team of researchers to sort through the hype and discover the real benefits. He wrote about his findings in a new book, “Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain and Body,” which he co-authored with Richard J. Davidson, a neuroscientist who directs a brain lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
