Category: Health

Noted: Heitzinger says of the funds they raise, 75% goes to those services. The other 25% goes to research at the national and international level, some of which is being done at UW-Madison.

Teaching Health Centers are located in Community Health Centers to provide graduate medical education — that period of residency training after graduation from medical school that is required to practice as a physician in the United States. The content and effectiveness of this training are important factors in determining the cost and quality of health care. And the location of this training affects the size and geographic distribution of the physician workforce: Those who train in underserved areas are likely to remain in the same or similar settings, providing access to competent care for rural and inner city patients.

Scott Logdon, a life-long University of Kentucky fan who received a bone marrow transplant from Wisconsin student, has died. He was 45.

The $22 million, 50-bed rehab hospital will replace a 21-bed inpatient rehab unit at UW Hospital. It’s a joint venture between UW Health and Kindred Healthcare, based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Noted: Dr. Sarah Nehls, a cornea specialist and ophthalmologist at UW Heath, performed the delicate procedure to remove the hook. “In this case, you can’t just pull the fish hook back out backward, because that would create more destruction of tissue,” Nehls said.

“Eye protection is a key issue,” Nehls said. “So wear sun glasses when you’re fishing. They would provide protection to the surface of the eye.”

Hunterdon County — where residents have a median household income of $106,143 — is the wealthiest county in New Jersey and also the healthiest for the sixth straight year, according to this year’s annual analysis co-sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Meanwhile, Cumberland County — with a median household income of $50,750 and a poverty rate of 18 percent — is the poorest and least healthy in the state.

Groundbreaking will take place Thursday at the site of UW Health’s Union Corners Clinic, at 2402 Winnebago St.

Featured: Carmen Hotvedt, assistant director for violence prevention at UHS.

A decade’s worth of creating will come to life Monday at UW Health at the American Center, when the first patients visit.  Before that happens, developers wanted to make sure their hospital would be one that would last for years to come.

With the school year upon us, many parents are already packing the pantry full of snacks. UW Health at the American Center’s Learning Kitchen is putting a nutritious spin on smart after-school snacking. This morning, on Wake Up Wisconsin, watch as UW Health Registered Dietician, Chef Julie Andrews, whips up easy to make popsicle recipes and muffins.

MADISON (WKOW) — Thanks to new funding at UW, doctors will be able to have some everyday wishes granted.  Engineers and students are working on prototypes for medical innovations that doctors have said they are lacking in their practice.  The UW Department of Emergency Medicine is teaming up with UW’s Morgridge Advanced Fabrication Lab or “Fab Lab” to improve these medical tools, which could improve your time in the hospital.

(Video) UW Health registered dietitian Cassie Vanderwall talks to News 3 This Morning about ideas for healthy snacks for hungry kids.

Two years ago a local woman saw her life turn upside down after hearing three words: ‘You have cancer’. When Samantha Mergen found a lump on her breast, at age 27, she thought it was odd, but didn’t think it was death defying. Mergen is now the Clinical Research Coordinator for UW Carbone Cancer Center working on clinical trials for cancer patients.

Scientists at the UW Carbone Cancer Center are in human trial phase for a vaccine to treat aggressive forms of prostate cancer. The first patient in the trial received the medicine this week. Each year about 240,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the US, and the disease re-occurs in about one-third of them.