MILWAUKEE – A couple years ago, families with deaf children had to pay thousands of dollars, out of pocket, for a device that would allow their child to hear. The I-Team pressed the issue until 2009 when lawmakers finally required insurance companies to help pay for cochlear implants.
Quoted: “The idea is to stimulate a local healing reaction,” lead author Dr. David Rabago, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, told Reuters Health.
Madison?s public health department weighed in on the Mifflin Street Block Party late last week, citing the event as an example of the negative effects of the city?s alcohol culture in a report about public health.
For the past seven years the Merrill Lynch Grand Gala has raised more than $2.5 million for community organizations. This year they?re partnering with the American Family Children?s Hospital.
Faced with declining levels of state funding and higher operating costs, universities across the country are increasing tuition to maintain sustainable operations. But another trend follows nationwide at colleges such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where some students rely on higher-interest private loans to fund their way through college because federal loans have not kept up with tuition hikes.
The Associated Students of Madison has approved a $52,670 budget for a mental health office in the Student Activities Center that will be used to help students with mental health issues.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, recently successful in planting stem cells into monkeys? brains, has now successfully created nerve cells that could transform into brain cells and repair learning and memory in damaged laboratory mice.
The University of Wisconsin- Madison reports a study conducted there is the first to show that human stem cells can successfully implant themselves in the brain and then heal neurological deficits.
Hospitals are never an easy place to be, and the quality of care you receive as a patient can be depend strongly on the quality of advocates you have by your side. The frustration visitors experience can certainly be magnified when trips to the hospital fall over the weekend or late at night.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing will feature two new endowed faculty chairs in 2014, due to a $5 million grant from alumni.
The father of UW-Madison student Henry Mackaman tells 27 News he questions a Madison hospital?s decision to release his son days before Mackaman died from meningitis.
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Henry Mackaman died Thursday as a result of meningococcal disease, according to Dean of Students Lori Berquam.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student has died after contracting a devastating and rare strain of bacterial meningitis. 21-year-old Henry Mackaman was a Senior Economics and English double-major at UW.
A UW-Madison student from St. Paul, Minn., has died after contracting bacterial meningitis, according to a UW-Madison statement Thursday.
A University of Wisconsin student hospitalized with meningococcal disease has died, according to multiple sources.
UW-Madison has confirmed that a student has been hospitalized with meningococcal disease. Additional details are not immediately available out of respect for the medical privacy of the student and the students family.
A $220 million UW Health facility going up on Madison?s Far East Side won?t be just a hospital, UW Hospital CEO Donna Katen-Bahensky said.”This is a health care campus,” she said Tuesday at a groundbreaking ceremony for the project, on 42 acres by the American Center business park.
The UW Carbone Cancer Center joined the Stand Up to Cancer Pediatric Dream Team on Sunday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will have access to a $14.5 million grant for cancer research.
The public got a look inside UW-Madisons medical learning facilities to see just how students are taught to help people and animals who are sick.
MILWAUKEE – The University of Wisconsin, Madison, is one of six institutions to share in a $14.5 million grant for cancer research.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and across the nation students will engage in events to spread awareness and discuss the prevention of sexual assault.
The beginning of April marks the kickoff of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a nationwide campaign to raise awareness about recognizing, preventing and taking action against sexual assault.
Ever place your keys in your pocket, only to start looking for them a half-second later? According to a study performed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it?s not because you?re going crazy?it?s because you?re stressed.
Why do violent scenes in war movies and violent scenes in a horror flick seem so different? Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Augsburg in Germany believe that it is the motivation behind the violence within the movie?s narrative that makes the difference. According to a new study, audiences are more tolerant of gory scenes in movies when they feel the violence points to some meaning and truth in everyday life.
Dear Reader: High blood pressure is the No. 1 reason for doctor?s visits in America. More than 50 million people in the U.S. and more than 1 billion people in the world are diagnosed with high blood pressure.
Wisconsin, we have a problem. What?s the tab for excessive drinking in Wisconsin? Our tab is a staggering $6.8 billion each year, according to a report released last week by Health First Wisconsin in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in Madison.
Crossing county lines in your state can mean a world of difference for your health, a new report reveals. The County Health Rankings and Roadmaps Program, a study and website created by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found major differences between state counties close to one another and even some that share borders.
The Dalai Lama is scheduled to visit Madison along with other international thought leaders to take part in a series of panel discussions in May as part of the ?Change your Mind Change the World? event at the Overture Center.
Two studies explore some of the developmental roots of depression in childhood and adolescence.
On Sunday, researchers from Johns Hopkins announced that a toddler in Mississippi is the first child to be “functionally cured” of HIV.
A study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs suggests life span for women in some parts of the country is actually falling, a finding that generated a lively discussion among Wall Street Journal readers. On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal spoke with the authors of the study?David Kindig, a health-sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin?s Population Health Institute, and Erika Cheng, a Ph.D candidate at the university?about what factors may be behind the result. Here is an edited excerpt:
Estimates say the federal sequester cuts will cost Wisconsin hospitals one billion dollars over the next 10 years, or $2 million each week, according to a Wisconsin Hospital Association statement.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin found an increasing female mortality rate at a national level in a study one researcher called the first of its kind.
Madison Police continue to investigate the shots fired near the University Houses area Tuesday night.
On Tuesday, March 5, there was extensive police activity in the Eagle Heights community in response to gunshots reported around 9:30 p.m. in the University Houses area.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police said UW Hospital is back open after an emergency with a possible armed person in an area on the far west end of campus.
New research from the University of Wisconsin?s Population Health Institute sheds light on that question, and the findings are as intriguing as they are worrisome. Writing in the journal Health Affairs, epidemiologists David Kindig and Erika Cheng report that 43% of all U.S. counties saw increases in female death rates over a recent 14-year period, while male mortality rose in just 3% of counties.
The Harlem Shake and Gangnam Style will be on full display Friday night at the UW-Madison Memorial Union, and for a good reason.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students can show off their best dance moves at the fifth annual Wisconsin Dance Marathon Friday to raise money for the American Family Children?s Hospital.
The work of four Dane County hospitals is responsible for Tuesday?s launch of a new website that provides up-to-date health and population data to the community.
Research on the bird flu may start up again on the University of Wisconsin campus after scientists voluntarily put the project on hold more than a year ago.
University of Wisconsin researchers have discovered a new way to detect and quantify proteins, which could potentially lead to more efficient cancer research and diagnosis.
Teresa A. Pellino escaped from the grip of pancreatic cancer on Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, while visiting her dear friends Deb Gordon and Myra Enloe in Seattle.
After taking in no state funding the past two years, University of Wisconsin?s cancer center will receive nearly $4 million through 2015, according to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker?s budget proposal.
GREEN BAY – Gov. Scott Walker wants to include $3.75 million for the University of Wisconsin?s Carbone Cancer Center.
A University of Wisconsin engineer who creates innovative health promotion technologies was named to the National Academy of Engineering Tuesday.
Alzheimer?s disease researchers at the University of Wisconsin identified the first signs of brain function decline, bringing them closer to winning the battle against the disease.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin are one step closer to finding a cure for carpal tunnel syndrome through the use of video technology to record and analyze workers? upper body movements.
Interim Chancellor David Ward and Dean of Students Lori Berquam said Monday they support a Responsible Action Bill the student government is lobbying for at the state level.
Construction of Madison?s first new general hospital in about 35 years is set to begin in April on the Far East Side, with preparations already under way.
Sharing books with children at an early age is important for their long-term learning and well-being, says Dipesh Navsaria, one of the two lecturers chosen for the Appleton Education Foundation?s 2013 Community Education Program.
The Army hopes a small plastic mouthpiece developed by the University of Wisconsin — Madison might help treat injured soldiers, including those who have suffered traumatic brain injuries.
University Health Services said they will not be requesting a budget increase through student segregated fees for the following fiscal year in a proposal given at a University of Wisconsin student government meeting Thursday.
As mental health issues continue to move into the national forefront, a University of Wisconsin student government committee announced Tuesday it will work to promote the awareness of such issues this semester.
Claims concerning increases in norovirus cases among University of Wisconsin students appear to be inconclusive, despite what recent reports suggest.
Any kind of blood clot in a young, healthy person is rare, a University of Wisconsin professor said Friday. ?Clots happen for different reasons,? said James Runo, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. ?A family history, smoking, birth control pills, in older people, trauma in the legs, if they are bedbound or have had surgery.?
Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are being invited to participate in a Wisconsin study designed to help soldiers adjust to life after combat.
Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are being invited to participate in a Wisconsin study designed to help soldiers adjust to life after combat.
Sitting in her four-hour lab in late November, University of Wisconsin senior Madeline Krasno suddenly felt achy, shifted between being freezing and boiling hot, then told her teaching assistant she felt like she had been hit by a bus and burst into tears.
