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.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is urging all undergraduates to get vaccinated against a rare form of meningitis that put two students in the hospital last week.
Campus health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending that UW-Madison undergraduate students become vaccinated against meningococcal disease serogroup B.
University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday issued a rare recommendation that all undergraduates get immunized against a type of potentially deadly meningococcal disease that put two students in the hospital a week ago and announced it will set up a special clinic starting Thursday to offer the expensive vaccine to students at no charge.
Amy Caulum, a clinical nutritionist with UW Health Pediatric Fitness Clinic, joins NBC15 to talk about healthy fall snacks for adults and kids alike.
Fight Colorectal Cancer and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center are working together to train survivors and caregivers to advocate for further research. The Colorectal Cancer Research Academy has drawn survivors and caregivers from across the country for two days of training.
Two research teams — one with a potential vaccine for the Zika virus and the other with a new way of monitoring sedated patients — have won $10,000 each in an innovation competition organized by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Quoted: “There’s a great study published, actually by a set of Physical Therapy students in a very small journal where they looked at moms pushing a stroller and they looked at them and compared that to jogging and they found that you get the same cardiovascular benefits from actually pushing the stroller as you do with light jogging,” said Dr. Liz Chumanov, with the UW Health Sports Rehabilitation Clinic.
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.
Noted: “Seventy-five percent of it stays right here in south central Wisconsin,” Heitzinger said. “The remaining 25 percent funds national breast cancer research, including breast cancer research at the UW-Madison.”
On a snowy Friday morning in 2005, Jeri Lake was riding her bicycle to the clinic where she worked as a nurse and midwife when a car suddenly drove into her path.
Letter to the editor: Recently my 35-year-old niece received a call for a heart from the transplant team at UW Hospital in Madison. She was admitted two-and-half hours after the call and in surgery before 8 p.m. Her surgery was a success, and within 24 hours she was sitting in a chair in her hospital room.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and two other universities have received a seven-year, $8.6 million grant to study one of the biggest, and perhaps most difficult goals of stem cell scientists — creating heart tissue in the lab for people who’ve suffered severe heart attacks.
CDI is partners in the venture with David Gamm, director of the UW-Madison’s McPherson Eye Research Institute.
A group of psychology researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison discovered a breakthrough with those who have blindness to motion. In the journal published Wednesday, Madison psychology Professor Bas Rokers says blind motion comes from a failure inside the brain, and not the eyes
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.
University Health Services held a clinic on Bascom Hill Tuesday, offering free flu shots to UW-Madison students.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved the eligibility of Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment allowing them access to funding from student segregated fees Monday.
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.
Noted: While studies are underway and advocacy groups and others scramble for better answers, specialists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison have teamed up with their counterparts in Oregon, as well as with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and health care records software giant Epic Systems, to build a program that helps predict whether an older person will fall. It not only calculates the risk — it steers physicians to preventative treatments.
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.
Noted: Leaders of the state’s two medical schools, UW School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison and Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, oppose the plan for a third school.
Dr. Jenna Sebranek, a freshly minted doctor at Richland Medical Center, entered a room to greet one of her first patients — and paused, because she recognized the face.
UW Madison is responding by launching the country’s first ever OBGYN rural residency program.
A shortage of rural doctors that can practice obstetrics is causing UW Madison to change its program. No more doctors in training will be learning in smaller towns.
Noted: HealthMyne was founded in 2013 by Rock Mackie, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist, and a team of people who previously created three successful imaging-related companies. It has more than 20 employees, a spokeswoman said.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is launching a rural residency program in its Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The goal is to give new physicians a glimpse into what it’s like to provide care for women in rural Wisconsin and to address a shortage of OB-GYNs in rural areas.
BEIJING — On Aug. 8, cutesy graphics and laconic messages of blocked content replaced 12 years of flourishing conversation about China’s intrusive family planning policies on the home pages of Fuxian Yi’s social media accounts.
A Reedsburg Area High School graduate has seen the effect of her first community service project. Jordyn Schara, who launched the campaign to create 24/7 drug drop boxes in the area, returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her senior year this fall.
The Zika virus is not spreading from vaccines or chemicals. It’s not a part of some big scheme by the U.S. Congress or pharmaceutical companies. Yet, rumors and conspiracy theories like these fill the screens of Facebook users.
It’s not unusual for children to worry or be nervous at the beginning of the school year. But some students, especially girls, have sustained anxiety that can develop into a disorder, doctors say.
Wendy Hahn, clinical nutritionist with UW Health, says eating at home translates into healthier meals and quality family time, saving money and calories.
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.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers want to help police officers decompress.
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.
A new study from UW-Madison suggests not all women should get mammograms on the same schedule.
The best hope for averting a projected physician shortage in Wisconsin is starting new residency programs in rural areas and filling them with graduates from the state’s medical schools.
This summer Jane Schmieding biked 650 miles — 10 for every year of her life — on a red hand bicycle. It’s yet another athletic accomplishment the biking, skiing and paddleboarding multiple sclerosis patient from Madison credits to a UW-Madison program geared toward training people with disabilities to find ways to get and stay fit.
Clinical Exercise Physiologist Ellen Houston with UW Health Pediatric Fitness joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to talk about the game.
A new study being conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nurses and the School of Medicine and Public Health will look at how concussions affect student athletes when they return to the classroom.
UW-Madison plans to study the effects of concussions on academic performance among 200 Madison-area high school athletes.
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.
Dr. Shilagh Mirgain, UW Health Clinical Psychologist, said it is important to instill the value of kindness in children each and every day.
Imagine a smartwatch that’s powered by the sun rather than a lithium-ion battery. Or a contact lens that taps solar energy to adjust its focus automatically to help you see better.
