A partnership program between University of Wisconsin Health and the United Way of Dane County will help low-income Dane County residents pay their insurance premiums.
Unlike a clinic or hospital setting, school nurses aren?t surrounded by their peers. In addition, some may not have had a lot of course work on kids with chronic health conditions, said Lori S. Anderson, assistant professor at the UW-Madison School of Nursing.
UW Health is donating $2 million to the United Way of Dane County to provide financial help to low-income people buying insurance on the new exchange opening Tuesday, the organizations said Friday.
In light of an accident-related death of a University of Wisconsin employee last spring, UW Facilities, Planning and Management reviewed their safety procedures and will be taking further precautions regarding safety on campus.
September kicks off flu shot clinics on the UW-Madison campus.
A Dane County judge upheld a $250,000 malpractice cap against UW-Madison doctors but urged the state Supreme Court to take the case, saying the cap set in 1979 is equal to $72,000 today.
A Dane County judge has upheld a $250,000 malpractice cap for University of Wisconsin-Madison doctors.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are dealing with high levels of intoxication since the return of students to campus, according to a release.
Scientists believe they have discovered a new reason why we need to sleep – it replenishes a type of brain cell.
The latest and greatest in school-based health care could come with the swipe of a tablet. As students return to class this year, school nurses across the country will have access to a newly expanded program called eSchoolCare.
The Veterans Administration has given a $1.9 million grant to the UW-Madison integrative medicine program to work with doctors to improve the whole health of America?s veterans.
Quoted: Donna Friedsam is the Health Policy Programs director at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. She says studies have shown that Wisconsin has high-quality health care overall, although it doesn?t rank as well in quality of care for blacks and Hispanics.
Wisconsin residents pay more for health care than those in many other states, but they often receive higher quality care too.
John Stofflet interviews Lori Anderson and Louise Wilson on during the 5 p.m. hour.
A new report from University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health shows there was a 20 percent decline in births among 15-19-year-old women between 2000 and 2010. Dr. Patrick Remington, the author of the study, says that means there were about 1,700 fewer teen moms in the state, compared to rates from a decade ago.
By the time they reach the fourth grade, children exposed to lead are nearly three times more likely to have been suspended, a new study contends.
fter 24 years of appointments, Lisa Rogers sat in a UW Hospital exam room hugging Dr. Philip Farrell goodbye. Now eight years later, they have reunited with two new people in tow ? Lisa?s husband, Chris, and newborn baby, Ella.?I never thought I?d have these two things in my life,? Rogers said with Chris and Ella at her side on a couch in the atrium of UW-Madison?s Health Sciences Learning Center.
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin met with medical researchers today at the University of Wisconsin?s Milwaukee and Madison campuses.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes (NHLBI), in collaboration with the FDA, has awarded the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention a $368,000 grant to study the use of menthol cigarettes at UW-Madison.
The third term alder, who represents a district that includes much of the UW-Madison campus and the Regent neighborhood, was a close ally of former Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, and helped shape the public-private ownership of the Overture Center that the Council put together during the final months of Cieslewicz?s administration.
Laura Knoll and her husband, Rob Striker, need nothing more than an open space to get their young sons moving.?We go to the track at West High School and have races with the kids,? Knoll said. … ?We have sprint races, where we see who can win once around the track, and then twice, and so on. It gets us all outside,? said Knoll, a professor of microbiology at UW-Madison. Her husband is also a professor at UW, and their demanding work schedules require plenty of play therapy.
The impending start of the federal health care law mandate is a couple months away, but people may already be hearing ads and seeing information on what to do.
He is co-chairman of Hackfest, a golf tournament fundraiser for brain cancer research at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention has received a $368,000 grant to study the use of menthol cigarettes.
University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Susan Paskewitz has researched ticks since the early 1990s. Paskewitz measures tick density out in the field. She says ticks are ten times higher than she?s used to seeing.
Sammy shivered on the metal examining table and looked doleful as Jane Pohlman flipped over his butterscotch-colored ears and looked for hitchhikers.
A Verona woman who won a $1.8 million jury award for her husband?s death in a lawsuit against a UW-Madison doctor is challenging a cap on damages against state-employed doctors, which limits the payment to $250,000.
Wrap your head around this: Expensive sports helmets with lots of padding may not offer greater protection, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. When researchers recorded the age, price, and brand of 2,000 high school athletes? football helmets, it appeared that none of those factors had any impact on who got concussions and who didn?t.
An aggressive tick that can trigger a disease causing fever and fatigue has an increased presence in Wisconsin, bug experts say.
An aggressive tick that can cause a disease marked by fever, fatigue and possibly an allergy to meat is showing up this year in Wisconsin like never before, a UW-Madison entomologist said Monday.
“If they get a signal….or a little bit of movement then they may actually aggressively hunt you,” said Professor Susan Paskewitz, talking about the Lone Star tick.
A new UW study has confirmed a link between Alzheimer?s disease and diabetes.
Biking in Madison is a pleasure for Devin Giddings, who has traveled on two wheels since childhood. From his home in the southwest of Madison, he makes a 90-minute ride to work in Fitchburg and back every day.
High school sports athletes will be eligible for free concussion testing as part of a research project that is being conducted at the University of Wisconsin.
About 5,000 union workers at the University of Wisconsin Hospital with expiring contracts are seeking support from the Madison Common Council.
wo Madison hospitals are mentioned in the U.S. News and World Report of the best hospitals in the country.
The neonatal physician injured in an ambulance crash Wednesday afternoon has passed away.
UW Health is saddened to announce the passing of Dr. Stanley Phillips III, a first year pediatric fellow who died this evening from injuries sustained during a vehicle crash.
When Tylee Daniels? daughter Tatiana was born at St. Joseph?s Hospital in Milwaukee nearly two years ago, mom knew something was wrong.
Uuniversity of Wisconsin – Madison Police have arrested a UW employee in connection with an incident at the Clinical Sciences Center on Saturday, according to a release.
Dr. Stanley Phillips, 32, of Madison, died Thursday night from injuries he sustained during a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ambulance crash Wednesday.
Dr. Stanley Phillips, a UW-Madison newborn care specialist injured Wednesday in an ambulance crash south of Rosendale, died Thursday night, UW Health officials said.
Before the nearly 70,000 babies born in Wisconsin each year go home from the hospital, five drops of blood are collected from a prick of their heels.
Wisconsin?s pioneering Newborn Screening Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is marking its 50th anniversary of screening newborns for rare diseases that can be detected and treated early — before they cause serious heatlh problems or even death.
General Electric Co. CEO Jeffrey Immelt will speak to the University of Wisconsin regents Friday morning at a regularly scheduled meeting.
It?s thought that traumatic brain injury may play a role in whether someone develops Alzheimer?s. Scientific advances are allowing researchers to test this idea with willing Vietnam veterans. Sterling Johnson is a neuropsychologist at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health who is collaborating on the national study.
Noted: That?s why the state?s other medical school, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has two programs to specifically serve students interested in practicing rural medicine. The programs provide specialized training and hands-on experience in small communities.
Researchers have long argued that a heralded spinal treatment sold by the nation?s largest device maker, Medtronic, was no better than an older one and possibly more risky. Now with the company?s help, they have the proof.
A UW-Madison spine surgeon omitted a sterility risk in a report about a controversial bone substitute but emphasized a surgical benefit, even though both factors were not statistically significant, a new review says.
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A bill approved on Wednesday (after a raucous roll call vote) by the State Senate requiring women seeking abortions to receive ultrasounds represents only one of several battles being waged by abortion foes in Wisconsin this year.
UW Health?s American Family Children?s Hospital is among the nation?s top 50 pediatric hospitals in six specialties, according to this year?s U.S. News & World Report ranking.
Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy teed up for a good cause Monday.
New rankings out Tuesday morning put Madison?s American Family Children?s Hospital among the nation?s top pediatric facilities.
American Family Children?s Hospital is ranked in this year?s U.S. News and World Report?s top 50 pediatric hospitals in the nation, according to a release.
I take exception to the criticism of Dr. Thomas Zdeblick. He has invented devices and improved procedures related to spine surgery. People who are successful in America should be admired.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers treating pain have found a way to sweeten up therapy by injecting sugar water into the knees of arthritis sufferers.
It is surprising the debate on the sale of raw milk has centered on retail legislation when the real threat is transmission of disease.
I have been following the case of the lawsuit and investigation against pioneering spinal surgeon Dr. Thomas Zdeblick of UW-Madison for the past year. It boggles my mind why anyone would pursue this.In 2008, my daughter shattered her fifth cervical vertebrae in an auto accident. She was given a 5 percent chance to walk again.
The fifth annual Andy North and Friends took place in Wisconsin Dells Sunday and Monday, raising $910,000 for the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
