According to a new study, about 44 percent of working people diagnosed with metastatic cancer continue to work after their diagnoses. Interviewed:Amye Tevaarwerk, the UW-Madison oncologist who worked on the study about which factors are associated with employment changes among patients with metastatic cancer.
Come spring, University of Wisconsin Health in Madison plans to move one of its Med Flight helicopters to Iowa County in order to improve response times in southwestern Wisconsin.
WAUSAU – Children live in families, said Dr. Dipesh Navsaria on Tuesday. It’s not a new revelation, he said, but it’s an important detail to remember as the county tries to tackle the challenges that face kids here.Navsaria spoke Tuesday morning to a full house at the Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County about the release of the 2015-2017 LIFE in Marathon County report.
Noted: Once at UW Health, Klett was immediately put into emergency laser surgery to repair the tears.
“We were essentially spot-welding around a tear to create an adhesion,” explained her doctor, UW Health Ophthalmologist (and professor of ophthalmology) Michael Altaweel.
University of Wisconsin researchers say they’ve found a treatment to clean up the plaques that form in the brain of mice with Alzheimer’s disease.
The research published in the journal Brain shows that compounds that inhibit two cellular proteins can help clean up the plaques found in the brain of mice with Alzheimer’s disease. The proteins work inside the cell to remove toxic material.
Quoted: Luigi Puglielli, of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
Noted: Wendy DeMartini is a professor and chief of breast imaging in the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: “The bottom line is people are still getting sick the way that they usually are but it’s not influenza that’s causing it,” UW Dr. Nasia Safdar, said. [Safdar is associate professor in the department of medicine.]
According to UW Health, Dane County is seeing a surge in something else.
“There’s a lot of other respiratory viruses that are going around,” Dr. Safdar said.
Noted: An epidemiologist at UW Health says all over Dane County, doctors have seen a lot of acute respiratory tract infections this week. Dr. Jonathan Temte, professor of family medicine, says most of the ARI cases were caused by Rhino/Enterovirus and Parainfluenza.
Separate studies have been released that look at mercury contamination in the environment.
One shows scientists can track the type of mercury pollution that gets into the Great Lakes. The other shows global mercury pollution is declining.
Dr. Seth Dailey knows it’s hard to underestimate the power of voice. “Think about the number of people you make judgments about based on their voice,” says Dailey, a UW-Madison surgeon who specializes in vocal disorders. “We do it all the time. It’s part of the perceptual package. It affects how people can do their jobs with altered voice production. Vocal issues are more important than ever before in human history.”
A family medicine physician has been named medical director at University Health Services on the UW-Madison campus.Dr. William Kinsey comes to UHS from the nonprofit Access Community Health Center in Madison, where he was medical site director since 2009.
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin-Madison have won a four-year, $5 million federal grant to study the brain networks of epilepsy patients. Their study, called the Epilepsy Connectome Project, will involve state-of-the-art brain imaging of about 200 adult temporal lobe epilepsy patients from across the state.
Q – Can stem cells be used to repair brain damage or help someone with Alzheimer’s, dementia or Parkinson’s?— Kate Krueger, 47, Madison
A – The simple answer to the question is yes. It is possible to regenerate parts of the brain with stem cells, just like we can in other organs.
Noted: “I think it’s a little more strict than it used to be, but it’s the same message, the same key messages that you want to take home,” said Julie Andrews, UW Health chef and registered dietitian. “The FDA suggests reducing the intake of added sugars, and so that means any sugars added during the processing of the food.”
Andrews is the coordinator for UW Health’s Learning Kitchen program, which offers cooking classes to those looking to learn how to cook healthier meals. Classes are held at UW Health at The American Center building on Madison’s northeast side.
Several cases of mumps have been recently reported in students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to an email sent Tuesday to students from University Health Services.
The cases are connected to current outbreaks of mumps occurring at other Midwestern universities, officials said.
How are those New Years’ resolutions coming? Looking for ways to keep going? Need some new ideas?
Yoga and resiliency classes highlight the community winter wellness programs UW Health at The American Center is offering, starting in late January. They are designed to help people live a healthier and balanced life.
With a simple pen and pad of paper Dr. Toby Campbell [assistant professor of medicine, oncology and palliative care medicine] is prescribing something for patients they need in the long and sometimes difficult battle with cancer: a day off from the disease.
Noted: Some doctors end up having to live with serious consequences of a poor self-diagnosis. As a young gastrointestinal oncologist specializing in colorectal cancer, Dr. Dusty Deming found his dream job at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he would spend half his time caring for patients and the other half in a lab, developing treatments.
Noted: The women, most in the early third trimester of their pregnancies, are part of Centering Pregnancy, a UW Health program that replaces individual prenatal care with a series of group visits.
Twenty years ago, a friend approached me about a problem. Many of the youths in the small community were in a cycle of trouble: incarceration, release and repeat. Concerned parents, clergy and others came together to seek solutions. They felt as if they were spinning their wheels and getting nowhere.
University of Wisconsin veterinary staff have bid farewell to a young sandhill crane they saved from possible death.The crane, then a sick baby, was spotted in late July in Cherokee Marsh, a wetland in Dane County, Wis. The bird walked with difficulty, drawing the attention of an observer and a team from the Humane Society’s Four Lakes Wildlife Center.
The health system, which is associated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was ranked in the bottom quarter of hospitals nationwide for patients who got sick or were injured while in the hospital, according to Medicare data. Of the hospitals ranked by Medicare in Madison, UW fared the worst.
UW Hospitals have a new peer volunteer group helping recovering brain injury and stroke victims who have recovered from their own brain injuries themselves. A case manager for the hospital joins to discuss the program.
Since the creation of University of Wisconsin Native American Center for Health Professions, there has been a 250 percent increase in Native student applicants to UW’s medical school.
Created in 2012, Native American Center for Health Professions was designed to improve the health and wellness of Native people, Melissa Metoxen, community and academic support coordinator at the Native American Center for Health Professions, said.
(Video) Thursday morning on Wake Up Wisconsin we discuss those ingredient options and show how to incorporate them into two cookie recipes with Julie Andrews. Andrews is the Program Coordinator and Top Chef for the Learning Kitchen at UW Health at The American Center.
“Like so many things in medicine, there is no easy yes or no answer” to that question, said Dr. Bjoern Buehring, an assistant professor of medicine and director of the Osteoporosis Clinical Research Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
You can learn proper CPR techniques on your lunch break today. The Madison Fire Department is teaching “Sidewalk CPR” on UW’s campus.
“Sidewalk CPR” is today from 11 to 2 at Gordon Commons on the downtown Madison UW campus.
Noted: Second year student Evan Cretney, with the University of Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine, always knew he wanted to work in a rural area. It wasn’t until he worked as an EMT in his home town of McFarland that he made it his mission to create a special bond with patients.
“I just loved caring for patients, showing up at their house in the middle of the night when they needed me was a really rewarding experience and something I knew I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” Cretney said.
It’s why he decided to apply for the W.A.R.M. program that trains medical students to become doctors in rural areas.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new method for screening the effectiveness of drugs for some cancers.
Quoted: “For those that acquire HIV, there is every reason to come in early to be on treatment to not have this disease have any important part of your life,” said Dr. Bennett Vogelman [Senior Associate Chair for Education for the Department of Medicine]. He’s one of the founding fathers of the UW Health HIV/AIDS Comprehensive Care Program. “It would be like treating high blood pressure or diabetes. We can control this and that’s a big change.”
(Video) On World AIDS Day, Dr. Ryan Westergaard talks about what UW is doing in the battle against HIV.
The Milwaukee-based AIDS Resource Center, which has 10 locations around the state, is contracting with UW Health to provide medical care at its Madison site, at 600 Williamson Street. Dr. Robert Striker and Dr. Ryan Westergaard will oversee the care.
It seems like a simple concept, but more often than not parents are making some big mistakes when buckling kids up in their safety seats.
Just because you hear that “click” of the buckle doesn’t mean your car or booster seat is properly installed. Nicole Vesley, the Safe Kids Coordinator at UW-Children’s Hospital says it’s not that simple.
“Here in Dane Co., about 90% of the car seats that we check have a misuse to them,” said Vesley.
Noted: Dr. Ryan Westergaard [assistant professor of medicine and Population Health Sciences] is an HIV doctor and researcher at UW Health. He says now the goal is to find more ways to prevent the spread of the virus, and ultimately find a cure.
New research from the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center could lead to better treatment for the most common form of breast cancer.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Jonathan Patz doesn’t focus on looming risks to the planet when he talks about climate change. Patz talks instead about the tremendous health benefits of policies to curb it.
Video: Associate Professor of Surgery Dr. Nathan Welham on the creation of lab-grown vocal cords.
The study of 373,189 elderly married couples by Nicholas A Christakis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found an 18 percent increase in ‘all-cause mortality,’ in men whose wives had died before them – and a 16 percent increase for women.
UW has become the first hospital in the Midwest to create a Brain Injury Peer Visitor program that brings together former brain injury patients with those currently being treated in the Neurosciences ICU unit.
Meriter-UnityPoint Health has signed an agreement to become a partner in the UW Health Rehabilitation Hospital that opened in September on Madison’s Far East Side. The 50-bed rehab hospital, adjacent to the new UW Health at the American Center complex that includes a general hospital, is currently owned and operated by UW Health and Louisville, Kentucky-based Kindred Healthcare.
UW-Madison scientists have grown human vocal cord tissue in a dish, which made sound when transplanted into voice boxes from cadaver dogs — a development that could lead to better treatments for people with voice disorders.
Two organizations are demanding an investigation into what they say are unethical clinical trials that have required medical residents around the country, including those at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, to work up to 28 hours or more at a time.
What is happening inside the brain when a soldier experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder is badly startled by a loud noise?
From mom’s comforting croon to a shout of warning, our voices are the main way we communicate and one we take for granted unless something goes wrong. Now researchers have grown human vocal cords in the laboratory that appear capable of producing sound – in hopes of one day helping people with voice-robbing diseases or injuries.
Noted: Some groups are already trying to open up those conversations and are investing significant money into those efforts.
The budget for University of Wisconsin-Madison’s group Sex Out Loud was just approved Monday night. A little more than $103,000 is allocated for the 2016-17 school year, all going toward the organization’s sex education workshops, World AIDS Day events and other outreach efforts.
Quoted: “People who have Type 2 diabetes are producing insulin, but their cells no longer know how to use it and it becomes a progressive chronic disease,” said Dr. Sandra Kamnetz, a family physician with UW Health [and clinical professor of family medicine]. “Insulin brings to patients with diabetes an increased risk of heart attack; increased risk of a stroke; increased risk of ulcers to the feet leading to potential amputation; and a risk of chronic renal failure even ending up in dialysis.”
Quoted: The prices of premiums can vary widely from year to year, especially if you chose a plan with low deductible, said Justin Sydnor, an associate professor at the Wisconsin School of Business in Madison.
Noted: The study involved people over 50 whose top reading was over 130. People with diabetes were excluded, so the results do not apply to them. The results also may not apply to people with previous strokes, the very old, those with severe kidney disease or people already taking a lot of different drugs, said Dr. James Stein, who heads the high blood pressure program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
New research from a pair of Princeton economists finds that the death rate among white Americans aged 45 to 54 is rising. Lisa Berkman, Director for the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studie and Dr. Patrick Remington, Associate Dean for Public Health and Professor of Population Health Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison joined MPR News with Kerri Miller to discuss the negative health trend.
Quoted: “Pelvic-floor disorders are common but they are not a normal or inevitable part of getting older or having children,” said Dr. Heidi Brown, UW Health OB-GYN [and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology]. “In this community talk we want to create a safe environment to help you learn to break free. You will learn tips and tricks to reduce symptoms and about the range of treatments available now.”
Dr. Brown and Dr. Dobie Giles, UW Health OB-GYN [and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology], will present and take questions; physical therapists will be on hand for education; and one patient will share her journey through treatment.
Band Together to Beat Cancer is a fundraising effort spearheaded by the UW Marching Band. This year band members will wear “Beat Cancer” pins during the halftime performance. The pins will be available to the public for a donation starting at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday at Union South. You can also get a pin online for a donation at www.uwhealth.org/beatcancer.
The proceeds will be used by the Carbone Cancer Center to continue their research.
A new study shows that among families with healthy children, the chances of divorce tend to increase with each successive child. However, among families with at least one disabled child, there is no increase in the rate of divorce as the family grows bigger.
Noted: A prime example is the ongoing 90th anniversary celebration of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Founded in 1925 as an independent patent and licensing office for the University of Wisconsin, WARF began with the campus discovery that ultraviolet radiation can produce vitamin D in food. That led to vitamin D milk and the virtual end to rickets, a disease that once scourged millions of children. Today, WARF is the oldest academic tech transfer organization of its kind in the United States and has returned more than $1 billion over time to the UW-Madison campus.
The five-year grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program will link the 160 churches in the WISDOM network with public health experts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Family Medicine. A group of ex-prisoners will help lead a study of the health barriers that many returning prisoners and their families face.
As breast cancer awareness month comes to a close, there is some good news for local patients and medical providers. New technology called radioactive seed localization is showing to be a more accurate tool for surgeons when locating and removing a lesion, while easing some day-of-surgery anxiety for patients.
Quoted: Jennifer Steiman, assistant professor of surgery
Stories of death and illness – losses of fathers to heart disease and aunts to colon cancer – punctuated an event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday evening, as experts spoke about their personal experiences with racial inequality in the American health care system.
Noted: Award recipient Ted Goodfriend, professor emeritus of medicine and pharmacology, founded MEDIC, a group of student-run medical clinics for underserved populations including the homeless.
Noted: About 30 years ago, Jones was involved in a study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a device that processed images and used vibrating pins on a fingertip to translate that image to a person who can’t see. The machine wasn’t mobile, but it was the start of what would become the BrainPort v100.
The number of concussions is cut in half. A UW study shows they’re down significantly because of new high school football practice rules. [Article discusses rules’ impact on Sun Prairie High School football.]
Quoted: Jeff Sindelar, an extension meat specialist at UW-Madison, said consumers should “certainly take note” of the WHO’s findings.
But he said the method used by the IARC in determining cancer risk levels based on red or processed meat consumption does not consider other factors, in many meat eaters, that may also be contributing to that risk.
“Lifestyle, genetics, other foods they’re eating and other habits, like smoking, drinking, etc., those all come into play,” Sindelar said.
