The UW School of Medicine and Public Health is joining the Medical College of Wisconsin and five other medical schools in a new effort to transform medical education, as health care focuses more on population groups as well as individual patients.
Noted: A report in March, the 2017 County Health Rankings, produced by the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, also highlighted a rise between 2014 and 2015 in premature deaths among people ages 15 to 44 and the broad geographic and demographic spread of those deaths.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin announced Thursday they are joining a national initiative to change how medical students are educated.
UW Health, which has joined other Madison-area health care providers in screening children for food insecurity, will become the first to ask patients of all ages about hunger next week.
Noted: 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. Engaged in primary care pediatrics, early literacy, medical education, and advocacy, he covers a variety of topics related to the health and well-being of children and families.
Mindfulness is defined as paying attention to the present moment in a purposeful, non-judgmental way. This study, as with previous ones, was small. It included 30 women in the third trimester of pregnancy who were randomly assigned to either mindfulness training or traditional childbirth classes. The lead author, Dr Larissa Duncan, associate professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that, given the fairly large body of research showing that mindfulness can reduce depression and anxiety, she hypothesised it would protect the mental health of mothers and fathers.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have come up with a smart phone app for addicts that’s getting recognition from Harvard’s Innovation in American Government competition.
An unauthorized person gained access to information about 2,036 UW Hospital patients in March, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
Noted: “The excessive drinking rate among adults in Green Bay is the highest of any metro area in the country,” according to a study released Wednesday. The group analyzed self-reported data from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The data was collected across nearly 400 metro areas.
BARRON COUNTY (WKOW) — A team of UW-Madison nursing students is assisting in tornado relief efforts Saturday in northwest Wisconsin.
Dr. Michael Thom of UW Health resigned and surrendered his license in February, amid an allegation of sexual misconduct with a patient, in a manner that allowed the case to remain secret.
MADISON — A doctor is accused of sexual misconduct, but his case was kept secret. Until now.
“We are getting more and more requests from patients who say, ’I want to avoid sedation if it’s not necessary,’” said Dr. Mike Ford, an anesthesiologist at UW Health. “Some patients don’t like the idea of losing complete control.”
Noted: UW Health plans to start offering corneal cross-linking by July, spokeswoman Emily Kumlien said. Unity Health Insurance will cover it there, spokeswoman Jennifer Dinehart said.
Not even two months ago, the Trump administration shocked the biomedical research community by proposing an 18-percent cut to the budget of the National Institutes of Health.
While Wisconsin had the second-highest per-capita participation among 35 states with high-risk pools, HIRSP was too expensive for many people and left more than half a million residents uninsured, said Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute.
A medical breakthrough that might save millions of lives could be crawling in your backyard.AdvertisementWISN 12 News’ Kent Wainscott investigates the groundbreaking research in Wisconsin aimed at stopping deadly, antibiotic-resistant superbugs with actual bugs.
A new UW-Madison study found women are twice as likely to have depression, and the gap in mental health between genders begins at age 12. UW professor Janet Hyde said a gender gap in mental health has been known in the scientific community for decades but had not been confirmed on a scale as large as this study.
A UW-Madison scientist’s chance opportunity to study a curious colony of rats in Mexico nearly three decades ago has resulted in an animal model for a newly discovered human disease related to multiple sclerosis.
The event was sponsored by the Evidence-Based Health Policy Project, part of UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute.
As the nation’s top party school prepares for its annual spring bash, with no campus-sanctioned alternative event this year, there are signs that heavy drinking among UW-Madison students may be declining.
An engineering professor who has been at UW-Madison for almost 20 years has been selected as the new director of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene.
The UW is hosting two events to teach people how to talk about important health decisions such as feeding tubes, Power of Attorney, and other health care values and goals.
Letter to the editor: The state of Arizona has a statutory prohibition very similar to my bill which has been in place since 2011. Neither of Arizona’s state medical schools have lost their accreditation, despite the same sort of claims to that end as made by Dean Golden.
Letter to the editor from Robert Golden, dean UW School of Medicine and Public Health and chair of the board, UW Health.
Malika Favre has designed several covers for the New Yorker. But she’s never seen any take off like her latest one.
Nine months after UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter announced plans for a joint operating agreement and a merger of health insurance plans, the organizations have signed formal agreements and been cleared by the Federal Trade Commission, they said Monday.
UW Health, UnityPoint Health and three insurance companies have reached a joint operating agreement that will lead to UW Health working more closely with UnityPoint Health Meriter Hospital in Madison.
UW Health started Centering Pregnancy, a program offering group prenatal visits in an effort to reduce preterm births, in 2014. The program, at a UW clinic on South Park Street, is expanding to UW’s clinic near West Towne Mall.
For her work, Susan Gold was awarded the first-ever Nelson Mandela Fellowship.
La Crosse County’s 2017 state health ranking dropped a notch — to 16th among Wisconsin’s 72 counties from last year — but more important are the targets the measures set for improvement, county Health Director Jen Rombalski said.
Getting lost in suburbia is taking on a grim new meaning in the U.S.
These young people are a “largely invisible” population that represent an “untapped social and economic opportunity,” says Marjory Givens, an associate scientist with RWJF’s county health program at the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute.
Dr. Alaa Abd-Elsayed, director of UW Health’s pain management clinic, plans to use a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to educate primary care doctors about appropriate use of opioids and alternatives such as other medications, steroid injections, nerve blocks and surgeries.
Noted: Joshua Salazar with UW Hospital has concerns for those he helps get into Medicare. “Not knowing what’s coming can be unsettling, but being prepared for what can happen is always a better position to be in,” Salazar said.
Wisconsin residents who are 64 years old, make $26,500 a year and buy health insurance individually would pay $5,300 to $13,000 a year more in premiums under the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, depending on where they live, a liberal watchdog group says.
Noted: According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Population Health Institute, 26% of La Crosse County adults report excess drinking. That’s one of the highest percentages in Wisconsin.
To grow clusters of human stem cells that mimic organs in the lab and might be used someday in tissue implants, Bill Murphy, a UW-Madison professor of biomedical engineering, creates tiny scaffolds made of plastic or rubber.
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) — As most people were looking for luck on St. Patrick’s Day, the students at the University of Wisconsin Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health found it on Match Day.
The White House budget proposal released last week would have devastating effects on science and technology in the United States as well as the education of the next generation of researchers, say organizations representing scientists and research institutions.
The event is at the Best Western Inntowner at 2424 University Avenue. It goes from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. March 16.
President Trump’s budget calls for a seismic disruption in government-funded medical and scientific research. The cuts are deep and broad.
TRIUMPH has recruited 69 students between 2010 and 2016. Out of these, 50 have graduated and worked in areas where at least 50 percent of urban patients live in poverty, Haq said. An additional 40 former students are now pursuing primary care specialities.
A proposal to ban research using aborted fetal tissue in Wisconsin is being reintroduced at the state Capitol. Under the bill, researchers would be prohibited from using fetal tissue gathered during abortions.
At UW-Madison, the LGBT CC works in junction with University Health Services to provide LGBT-identifying students with increasing support, especially for transgender persons. While services expand, some find help. But others are still waiting.
Segregation can impact a person’s body, mind and health. Not everyone has the same opportunity to be healthy in a city like Milwaukee.
The UW Carbone Cancer Center hosted its annual Bowlin’ for Colons at nine different bowling alleys, to raise money for colon cancer research at the cancer center.
Video story about living donor donation at UW Health.
They’ll be wearing headbands, but it won’t be a fashion statement. Half the Onalaska High School girls soccer team will wear the equipment as part of a concussion study. The headbands – which look more like ankle braces but on one’s head – were made to absorb contact, hopefully lessening the impact that leads to concussions. All of it as part of a study being performed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A commitment to equity demands that insurance for University of Wisconsin-Madison employees cover transgender health care, said a special campus committee earlier this month.
Every time a patient comes out of an operating room at UW Hospital, so does a lot of used-up stuff.
It started with the removal of sugar-sweetened drinks and deep-fat fryers back in 2014.Poof! They were gone. But the culinary staff for the University of Wisconsin Hospital system were just getting started. By the time they were done with a major overhaul of their cafeterias’ food offerings, healthy salads, alternative grains, ethnic specialties and local farm-fresh fruits and vegetables would rule the day, and the plate, for the system’s nearly 15,000 employees and other diners.
What started last year as a feminine product collection drive is now one of UW-Madison’s newest student organizations: Accessible Reproductive Healthcare Initiative.
Anyone who has been on a diet knows the real challenge comes later, when you’ve got to fight tooth and nail to keep from regaining the lost weight. Now, a new trial finds that regular “diet coaching” may help keep the weight off. People were more likely to maintain successful weight loss if they took part in a series of post-diet coaching sessions conducted mostly by phone, said study author Corrine Voils. She is scientific director of the Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Research Program at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is conducting a study of up to 3,000 high school soccer players to determine whether headgear can help reduce the number of concussions in soccer. It’s the first scientific study of its kind.
Noted: A team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have warned the bacteria poses a “severe risk in early pregnancy”.
Noted: “We went into this study unsure what to expect,” said Corinne Voils, who is also a professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The blueprint for addressing the situation remains obtuse at best. Some medical schools think part of the solution is to train more doctors for rural work. The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is launching the nation’s first official obstetrics–gynecology residency program for “very rural” areas, with the first resident slated to be selected next month. “Increasing the physician workforce is important,” says Ellen Hartenbach, residency program director for the school’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. “A large percentage of people practice in the same area after residency, so the theory behind our new training track is to get people training in the smaller communities and increase their exposure,” she says. (ACOG says about half of all residents practice in the state where they trained.)
Noted: “It is essential for public discussions to precede any decisions about whether or how to pursue clinical trials of such applications,” said R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a leader of the panel that wrote the report. “And we need to have them now.”
Ethicists have been working overtime to figure out how to handle CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing technique that could potentially prevent congenital diseases but could also be used for cosmetic enhancements and lead to permanent, heritable changes in the human species.
