UW Health plans to stop selling sugar-sweetened beverages by the end of the year, becoming one of the first health care organizations in Wisconsin to eliminate sugary drinks as a way of encouraging patients, employees and visitors to consume healthier alternatives.
UW-Madison will use a $975,000 federal grant to partner with five American Indian tribes in Wisconsin in hopes of guiding more young tribemembers into health-care careers, the university announced Wednesday.
Quoted: “The exchanges really werent designed for those people,” said Tom Jackson, co-chair of the health and policy committee of the Wisconsin chapter and an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
The National Institutes of Health has given $8.3 million to UW-Madison to create the center, the university said in a news release.
UW Hospital and the American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison are two of four hospitals selected in Wisconsin to care for Ebola patients.
Wisconsin health officials have set up a plan for moving Ebola patients in the state to one of four hospitals.
Noted: • UW Health, including University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, and the American Family Childrens Hospital in Madison for pediatric patients.
The Madison-based group, founded by UW-Madison ophthalmology professor Suresh Chandra, treats people in the developing world and has helped fund free community eye care clinics in Madison
UW Hospital and American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison are among four hospitals that would care for any Ebola patients in Wisconsin, though other hospitals might be added to the list, health officials said Tuesday.
In the video posted on Facebook, Gregg Mitman, a UW-Madison professor of medical history and bioethics, tells of learning that the outbreak had reached Monrovia, Liberia, while he was there in June filming a documentary with UW-Madison graduate student and Liberian native Emmanuel Urey.
State health officials have determined where any patients who contract the Ebola virus will be sent and has set up transfer plans to get them there.
The center will work with the University of Wisconsin’s asthma and allergy research center to track kids’ development of allergies and respiratory infections for two years, starting before the babies are born.
Ebola has rapidly become a source of fear and debate, bringing concern as far as University of Wisconsin, where officials are making preparations for the unlikely event that the virus would reach Madison.
In Madison, the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group held a news conference where retired University of Wisconsin Health physician Laurel Mark spoke. She said more doctors are becoming aware of how misuse and overuse of antibiotics can make the drugs ineffective.
Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the American College Health Association?s point man on Ebola, said the latter group strongly supports the CDC?s travel warnings. With study abroad, it?s easy, he said. Just cancel programs. But when researchers want to take their expertise into countries where the incidence of Ebola is skyrocketing, the solution isn?t so clear.
In the first results of the ACO program, released in September, UW Health didn?t gain or lose.
An uncommon number of hospitalizations due to flu have already been observed throughout the state of Wisconsin, causing state and campus officials to advise early vaccination.
Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin at Madison who warned about the panicked overreactions on some campuses, has helped the American College Health Association update its own recommendations. He feels that travel to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone should be curtailed, not only because of the risks to those traveling, but also because of the possible legal and financial consequences for universities.
Scientists are reporting the first strong evidence that human embryonic stem cells may be helping patients.
he search for answers about Ebola, just like the virus itself, have gone on for years.
Madison — UW-Madison?s Health Services says they are monitoring the Ebola situation very close. In recent months, they?ve even identified seven potentially at risk students who traveled to the affected region.
Yet some providers in Wisconsin are implementing new guidelines in response to the disease. Dr. Nazia Safdar is director of infection control at the UW Medical Center in Madison. She says the hospital has been planning for months.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virology professor at UW-Madison, received an award Tuesday for his research in understanding and preventing pandemic influenza.
At the UW Carbone Cancer Center, Surgical Oncologist Dr. Emily Winslow clicks away on an overwhelming number of documents flashing up on her computer screen.
UW-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka has been awarded the 2014 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award for his work in understanding and preventing pandemic influenza.
UW-Madison biomedical engineering professor Pamela Kreeger received a prestigious prize awarded to cutting-edge scientists whose research, if fruitful, has the potential to be incredibly impactful.
With breast cancer awareness month just getting into full swing — one UW Madison researcher is working on a groundbreaking new study to treat some cancers in days — not weeks.
At UW Healths West Clinic, there are a group of women who have given the phrase “good catch” new meaning.
Noted: There are two schools of pharmacy in Wisconsin, at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon.
Scientists increasingly understand that children?s brain growth can be stunted by a lack of stimulation and by childhood traumas, such as violence and sexual abuse, said Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, a pediatrician and expert on child development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In a sea of more than 43,000 students, a University of Wisconsin program focusing on suicide prevention is hoping to teach Badgers to care for one another.
Flu shots at University Health Services will begin next week as the temperatures dip down and flu season settles in.
Created through a broad partnership between the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, the Center for Patient Partnerships, Health Innovation Program, Access Community Health Centers, Group Health Cooperative and UW Health, patients now are being asked to join the conversation.
?Bush meat?? I asked. The food in front of me smelled delicious, but the mention of bush meat in the stew evoked a twinge of fear. Could it be fruit bat? Chimpanzee? Both can harbor Ebola virus.
Samples from one UW patient with suspected enterovirus D68 were sent to the CDC late last week, said Dr. Nasia Safdar, an infectious diseases specialist at UW Hospital.
There?s a funding crunch for biomedical research in the United States ? and it?s not just causing pain for scientists and universities. It?s also creating incentives for researchers to cut corners ? and that?s affecting people who are seriously ill.
As pediatricians, we take care of children?s physical, social, cognitive and emotional health. One of our biggest concerns is when we see children who fail educationally ? not just in high school or middle school, but in their elementary years. When we delve into their struggles with learning, we often discover that their achievement gap stems from environmental influences in their lives.
Where will Ebola fly to? It could be the U.S. Dr. Nasia Safdar, Director of Infection Control at UW Hospital, said that much depends on efforts to contain this worst-ever outbreak in West Africa. ?I do think that eventually it will arrive here, but the timing of when that might depends entirely on how quickly things can be contained ? or not ? over there,? she said.
The University of Wisconsin is monitoring students who travelled to Ebola affected regions in various parts of West Africa to guarantee safety among students and staff.
Still, ?it?s a no-brainer? that smokers who switch to e-cigarettes are reducing harm, said Doug Jorenby, clinical services director at UW-Madison?s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. ?Based on what we know at the moment, it?s almost beyond debate,? he said … The state of Wisconsin and UW Health are among Madison-area employers that have added e-cigarettes to their smoking bans, spokespeople said. The Madison School District plans to add them to its policy this year. UW-Madison allows e-cigarettes but plans to re-evaluate the issue this year.
Quoted: ?Much of what makes people healthier is not health care,? said David Kindig, emeritus professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. ?It is education. It?s the physical environment. It?s employment.
Noted: Magdalena Rychlowska, who led the study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, used electrodes to track the facial muscles of 29 women while they looked at photos of two babies.
As the school year gets underway, UW-Madison continues working with students who have traveled to the region affected by an Ebola outbreak to ensure safety on campus.
Donna Katen-Bahensky, former president and CEO of UW Hospital, will get at least $1.3 million in severance pay, according to an exit letter released by the hospital Friday.
Quoted: ?We basically ask people to advise us if they become ill,? said Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin?s student health service and chairman of the American College Health Association?s task force on emerging health threats.
The former president and CEO of the UW Hospitals and Clinics will retire from her job Monday and yet still earn at least $1.3 million in severance pay.
Quoted: “Erections are often a barometer of a man?s overall health both physically and psychologically,” says Dr. David R. Paolone, associate professor in Department of Urology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “I think that?s something that we recognize more and more.”
Physicians Plus has withdrawn a complaint with the state alleging that Unity Health Plans and UW Health illegally restrained competition for health insurance in south-central Wisconsin.
On Wednesday, the city Urban Design Commission will consider details on the proposed 60,000-square foot UW Health Clinic at 6th Street and East Washington Avenue. The clinic, which includes 245 parking spaces, 100 below grade, would be the first building constructed on the vacant 11.3 acre site.
The risk of a high school football player getting a concussion is no different when wearing an older helmet than a new one, and the brand of helmet doesn?t matter. That?s the conclusion drawn from a study by researchers at UW-Madison involving more than 2,000 high school football players at 34 high schools in Wisconsin during the 2012 and 2013 seasons.
More than 40,000 high school athletes suffer concussions each year and while many think the newest or most expensive helmet will reduce the risk a new UW-Madison study suggests otherwise.
A University of Wisconsin study suggests there is no difference in concussion risk for high school football players based on different brands or ages of helmets, according to a release.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wisconsin was consistently ranked in the top tier of states with a high obesity rate. Efforts to help improve that ranking over the last 20 years have paid off, although Doctor Pat Remington, Associate Dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, says it?s mainly because Wisconsin held the line while obesity rates in other other states got worse.
Ron Sliwinski, chief operating officer of UW Hospital, was named interim president and CEO Friday, following the announcement Wednesday that Donna Katen-Bahensky is retiring as president and CEO Sept. 1 amid restructuring of UW Health.
The $53 million building, to be dedicated Saturday and open for classes next month, won?t only teach students differently. It will teach more of them, in an effort to help offset a projected shortage of nearly 23,500 nurses in Wisconsin by 2035.
UW Health plans to combine its hospital and doctor group into one organization to more easily form partnerships with other health care systems, the leader of the doctor group said Thursday.
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The president and CEO of UW Hospital will retire next month amid restructuring of the organization.
Publicly traded Exact Sciences has 300 employees, about 200 of them in Madison, with headquarters in University Research Park, at 441 Charmany Drive, and a new lab in the Novation Campus, off Rimrock Road.
The legislation introduced Tuesday has support from the Medical College of Wisconsin and the medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
