University of Wisconsin-Madison is one the Midwestern universities that will receive a portion of $10 million to establish a new research and training program to stop the spread of diseases carried by insects, according to a release.
WAUSAU – Three health care students will share more than $200,000 in scholarships as part of an effort to draw more medical providers to north central Wisconsin and upper Michigan.
A group of University of Wisconsin medical students met in downtown Janesville Wednesday morning to hand over a petition to Paul Ryan’s constituent service center asking Ryan not to defund Planned Parenthood.
A study being conducted by the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention is looking into whether video games on a smart phone can help smokers quit.
A study being conducted by the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention is looking into whether video games on a smart phone can help smokers quit.
As more Wisconsin health care professionals retire, University of Wisconsin looks to create programs that will drive up health care enrollment and alleviate shortages around the state.
After Cheryl Stedman got on the waiting list for a kidney transplant at UW Hospital in 2015, she figured she’d have to wait a year or two to get one. But nine months later, in May 2016, she received a kidney.
Noted: Problems in other brain systems, like vision, might also increase athlete injury risk, says Alison Brooks at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison. But she warns that the underlying relationship between concussion and other injuries is unclear. “How do we know these athletes weren’t different to begin with? Maybe the reason they got a concussion in the first place is that there’s something different about them,” she says.
Last summer, more than 800 bicyclists took on The Ride. The event raised more than 150 thousand dollars for cancer research and this week that money will be put to use on the research initiatives of 6 special recipients.
In addition, state Rep. Andre Jacque (R-De Pere) said he will introduce a bill this session to prohibit University of Wisconsin physicians from doing outside work for Planned Parenthood clinics and any other abortion provider.
Noted: Walker also called on the Legislature to hold a special session on several bills to fight addiction by: Allowing the University of Wisconsin System to charter an addiction recovery high school that would combine traditional classes with treatment for substance abuse.
Environmentalism, medicine and art all have one thing in common at UW Hospital. Staff members are now recycling and reusing medical plastic, like vial caps, that otherwise would have been thrown away, largely for art projects.
As of Jan. 1, UW Health and Marshfield Clinic Health System are no longer part of AboutHealth, one of two partnerships formed in recent years among health care systems in Wisconsin.
A clinical trial being conducted by the UW Carbone Cancer Center is looking at whether coaching, support and fitness trackers can change the activity level of cancer survivors.
The money from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Smart Policing Initiative will pay for a community-wide program in Madison, involving not just police but treatment providers, UW-Madison researchers — to measure and analyze the program’s effectiveness — public health officials, Dane County Human Services, the nonprofit organization Safe Communities Madison-Dane County and other partners. The grant also will buy about $21,000 worth of the overdose antidote Narcan, now provided to police by pharmaceutical company donations.
The research, called “novel” in a medical journal and a “bionic penis” in British tabloids, is being conducted by UW-Madison assistant professor Brian Le. It focuses on a nickel-titanium alloy, a “memory metal,” that is used to create a scaffold, an “exo-skeleton,” activated by heat, according to an article in the current edition of the journal Urology.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is reminding UW-Madison students who received their first dose of meningococcal B vaccine on campus in response to an outbreak this fall to get their second dose of the vaccine this winter break.
Noted: Julia Sherman is the coordinator of the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
At least 4 percent of patients under general anesthesia are conscious after doctors insert their breathing tube before surgery, according to a new study led by a UW-Madison researcher.
Noted: The 2016 County Health Rankings, a separate report conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in March, also showed dramatic differences in health and deaths between rural and urban communities.
Noted: Peter Kane, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison said the study was able to show that, at least in the VA health system, effective PTSD treatments can be successfully delivered in multiple ways.
Noted: Several scientists not involved in the study noted that the effect it recorded might be artificially high, because all women who had Zika had a symptomatic infection. It’s known that most people who contract Zika don’t have symptoms, and women with those milder infections may not give birth to babies with birth defects at the same rate, suggested Dave O’Connor, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has been studying Zika in non-human primates.
Justin Sydnor is a UW-Madison business professor specializing in risk management and insurance.
Chef Lisa and Chef Ellen from UW Health joined NBC15’s Meredith Barack to show off some holiday appetizers that are easy and delicious.
Friends of UW Health hosted its 19th Love Lights Festival Sunday night at the Health Sciences Learning Center. The program is a way for loved ones to remember and honor those who’ve passed on by purchasing lights in memory of their loved ones.
Oakwood took the actions to reduce falls as part of its participation in the Wisconsin Coalition for Collaborative Excellence in Assisted Living. The coalition, formed in 2009 by the state, UW-Madison and Wisconsin’s four assisted living associations, is designed to help facilities in good standing with the state improve their quality of care, while state inspectors focus more on troubled facilities.
Minnesota students who attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison are urged to squeeze in a meningitis vaccination appointment while they are at home on winter break.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are working to produce flu vaccines in a different way. The goal: better protection from what is a seasonal annoyance for many but a serious health concern for others.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are working to produce flu vaccines in a different way. The goal: better protection from what is a seasonal annoyance for many but a serious health concern for others.
University Health Services at UW-Madison are encouraging students to get a second dose for the Meningitis B vaccine, but this time it won’t be offered as free by the university.
In October, UW Madison officials announced three students on campus were recovering from meningococcal disease. Since then, the university announced that they would provide free vaccinations.
Noted: Dr. Patrick Remington, associate dean of public health at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, said the finding is concerning. “It means that more Wisconsin residents are at risk for Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and other obesity-related illnesses, and, in turn, our state is at greater risk for higher health care costs and lost productivity due to these illnesses.”
Instead of relying on University Health Services to provide the required second dosage for the meningitis vaccine, University of Wisconsin students may need to look to their private health care providers.
University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is telling people to get the second dose of the meningitis vaccine, but there are new questions about who will cover the costs.
The event featured a presentation from an infectious- disease specialist who works in the Cook County jail and other resource centers.
Though she said it can be difficult being person of color and an engineering student, Janera Allen has made her mark during her four years at the University of Wisconsin.
The House overwhelmingly backed broad legislation Tuesday to increase federal support for medical research, advancing a long-anticipated bill that is expected to clear the Senate soon and get President Obama’s signature.
Representative Tom Price (R–GA), the orthopedic surgeon and six-term congressman who President-elect Donald Trump yesterday picked to be his secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is a conservative spending hawk and fierce opponent of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and abortion. But he has also spoken generally in favor of increasing funding for federal research agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which he would oversee if confirmed to the job by the Senate.
Transplant surgeons can finally move out of the ice age.
Noted: UW Health Pediatric Fitness Clinical Nutritionist Nora McCormick joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to share strategies to help us control our calorie intake Thursday.
Noted: Meanwhile, UW-Madison researchers continue to study Zika in rhesus macaque monkeys.Four monkey babies born to mothers infected with Zika during pregnancy had Zika virus in many types of tissue, and their heads may have been slightly smaller than normal, said David O’Connor, a UW-Madison pathology professor.
Noted: It’s possible that weight loss is an early symptom of dementia, Dr. Sanjay Asthana of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health said in a commentary accompanying the study.
University Health Services gynecologist Dr. Mary Landry said the clinic has seen 55 online requests for intrauterine device (IUD) consultations between Nov. 8 and Nov. 10. In the week after the election, UHS reported between 5 and 10 requests for IUD consultations per day. Typically, she said, the service sees five to six such requests per week.
A UW veterinarian who has pioneered pet therapy has now started a new program that is raising the spirits of pediatric patients at American Family Children’s Hospital.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student engineers have designed a new prototype to transport organs.
Sore arms and talks of a deadly infection flooded the campus last week, a result of students swarming the Southeast Recreational Facility to receive the first of two free meningococcal B vaccines offered by the university’s health services after three UW-Madison students fell ill this past month.
In 2014, two University of Wisconsin engineering professors revealed technology light years ahead of what was currently available for imaging the brain.
The UW Hospital’s Emergency Department has been renovated.
Noted: Cellectar was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert. Following a 2011 merger with a public company, Novelos Therapeutics, the corporate headquarters was moved to Massachusetts. The company moved back to Madison in 2014.
Lisa Hansen’s daughter, a 19-year-old freshman at UW-Madison, had a sore throat and was achy and tired when she went home to the Milwaukee area the first weekend in October.
A liver transplant patient at UW Hospital is the first in the country to receive a liver preserved at body temperature instead of in a cold solution, in a study comparing the two methods.
UW officials said the student is currently being treated at a local hospital, and efforts are underway to contact individuals who may have been in close contact with them. A free vaccine is also available for undergraduate students.
Quoted: “We can’t escape the fact that health care is very expensive in this country, and that paying for health care is a big and increasing problem,” said Justin Sydnor, an associate professor of actuarial science, risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. “I don’t have a silver bullet, and nobody does.”
As the state’s rural population ages, increasing its need for health care, Wisconsin is facing a shortage of physicians in rural areas that is projected to get much worse in coming decades.
To address it, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the Medical College of Wisconsin and the state’s health systems are developing residency programs in rural areas — knowing that doctors are more likely to practice where they do their training.
Amy Mihm with UW Health Pediatric Fitness joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to talk about how to help your kids get enough sleep.
Heather Kirkorian, an associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies at UW-Madison, talks about new screen-time guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
SOMMERS — When Terrill Taylor graduated from Horlick High School he was looking for a college that was close to home, not too expensive and had a professional health program.
Faculty members from the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the University of Wisconsin Law School hosted a town hall meeting at the Sheraton Madison Hotel focusing on health care policy, climate change and criminal justice.
UW-Madison is recommending that students be vaccinated against a rare form of meningitis following the hospitalization of two students last week, university officials said Friday.
UW-Madison students can start getting free vaccinations on Thursday against the rare form of meningitis that sent two students to the hospital earlier this month.
