Category: Health

Windy Smith and her brother were spanked and hit with a belt as children. They grew up fearing household items. When Smith became a parent, she decided she would not use physical discipline.

The arrangement with Pewaukee-based ProHealth Care means UW Health will establish a Milwaukee-area connection that potentially will compete with the area’s two existing transplant programs at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee and Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa.

The stick hit the puck and the puck glided across the ice. As the blades on his skates did the same, Vaughn Kottler, a now junior at UW-Madison but an incoming high school junior at the time, scurried around the hockey rink at tryouts. Little did he know what was about to hit him.

Crowded into a room in the University of Wisconsin’s palliative care ward, a family held vigil over their elderly relative as doctors said she had just hours to live.

Noted: In a statement, the shelter said 137 dogs were cleared of distemper after all tests came back negative from the University of Wisconsin’s School of Veterinary Medicine. In total, 99 dogs were euthanized during the quarantine period after the shelter was contaminated by a dog at the end of August. Those reasons included: confirmed distemper, suspected, behavior, other.

Dr. Shilagh Mirgain, a clinical psychologist at UW Health, joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to talk about the mid-life crisis.

While Michigan football fans eagerly await a showdown against No. 11 Wisconsin at Michigan Stadium on Oct. 1, another face-off between the two storied universities is taking place this month.

The rivalry between the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan continues to heat up. Wisconsin and Michigan have challenged each other to see which can raise the most money for pediatric cancer research during the month of September, Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

The vast majority of women ages 50 to 74 should consider getting mammograms every three years, instead of every two years as currently recommended, to reduce the potential harms from breast cancer screening, a UW-Madison study says.

Clinical Exercise Physiologist Ellen Houston with UW Health Pediatric Fitness joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to talk about the game.

Cedarburg pediatrician Dan Hagerman hasn’t personally treated meningococcal disease, but one of his daughters was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when a fellow Badger died three years ago from the fast-moving bacterial disease that begins with flu-like symptoms.

Noted: At least one state, Wisconsin, has begun an initiative to address the shortage. Starting next year, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine will designate one resident in obstetrics and gynecology who will do at least a quarter of his or her training in rural areas with too few maternal health providers.

Donor livers would be shared more broadly around the country under a new proposal meant to reduce geographic disparities in access to transplants, but the move could harm UW Hospital and other programs by forcing them to export more livers and do fewer transplants.

The federal government has begun rating hospitals on overall quality, marking another step in an effort begun more than a decade ago to provide patients with better information about the care provided in hospitals and other health care settings.

The last class of physicians has entered a longstanding Eau Claire family medicine residency program that UW-Madison will end in June 2019.

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting about 40 million adults, according to the National Institute of Mental Illness. Although they’re highly treatable, only a small amount of those suffering seek help, said Dr. Ned H. Kalin of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.