Category: Health

In an effort to increase public health throughout the state, the University of Wisconsin accepted a $23.5 million federal grant Tuesday for a branch of University Health Services.

Dr. Jacqueline Gerhart will answer your health questions each week on Tuesdays in the Wisconsin State Journal.

“As a local family medicine physician I am excited to connect with you and the community to share health information and answer your questions.”

Public health programs that promote healthier lifestyles will receive funding from a $23.5 million grant awarded to a University of Wisconsin-Madison department, the university said Tuesday.

It?s national ovarian cancer awareness month, and while researchers at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center continue to make strides against the deadly disease, the key continues to be early detection.

More than 30 area student-athletes learned about concussions Sunday and took a test doctors described as a tool to prevent long-term consequences from head injuries.

Many people think of the city lifestyle as unhealthy, associating it with noise, pollution, crime, dense populations, a fast pace, and high stress levels. Many aspire to leaving the city for the country and the healthier lifestyle they think more tranquility brings.

Fresh air, open spaces and chirping birds should be conducive to a much healthier lifestyle, or so the thinking goes. But, reports CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano, a new study seems to dispel those notions.Cities once infamous for pollution, crime, crowding and infectious diseases have cleaned up their act.

“They may have a better educational system,” says Patrick Remington, project director of County Health Rankings, a report published by the University of Wisconsin that ranks more than 3,000 counties nationwide against others in their states.

An appeals court has upheld sanctions against a former University of Wisconsin Hospital doctor who was accused of fondling female patients.

Letter from Dr. Norman Jensen, professor emeritus, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

UW-Madison has a new director of its Environment, Health and Safety Department. Paul F. Umbeck, who founded a University Research Park-based consulting firm on biosafety and biosecurity issues, will be in charge of general campus safety.

“Working Mother” magazine just named UW Hospital and Clinics one of the top ten “Best Companies for Kids” across the nation.

When one of Nikki Engledow?s two sons is too sick for school and she can?t stay home, or her child care arrangements fall through, she takes advantage of the backup care benefit offered to her as an employee of UW Hospital and Clinics. “I?ve called in the middle of the night or the morning of when one of the boys has been ill … and they have been able to arrange child care without a problem,” said Engledow, a clinical nurse manager. The backup care benefit, which provides employees access to a service that finds last-minute care for their children, spouse, partner or elderly parents, has helped UW Hospital and Clinics earn a spot on Working Mother Magazine?s list of 10 Best Companies for Kids for 2011.

A new pilot study in Sauk County will test whether specially-trained paramedics can reduce visits to the local emergency room. The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the Baraboo District Ambulance Service are working with several partners on a study of community paramedics.

A new pilot study in Sauk County will test whether specially-trained paramedics can reduce visits to the local emergency room.

A new pilot study set to begin in Sauk County will test whether specially-trained paramedics can help cut down visits to the local emergency room. The UW School of Medicine and Public Health and the Baraboo Ambulance service are working with several partners on a study to see if the concept of community paramedics could work.

BARABOO, Wis. — A new pilot study in Sauk County will test whether specially-trained paramedics can reduce visits to the local emergency room. The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the Baraboo District Ambulance Service are working with several partners on a study of community paramedics. The idea is to train paramedics to do in-home evaluations of patients that may suffer from asthma, pulmonary disease or other conditions.

Madison?s west side is the site-of-choice for a $100 million redevelopment project that would include UW Health clinics. People living near University Avenue and North Whitney Way are joining in on the discussion about the plans.

When doctors scanned Susan Baker Kiconas? brain to see how a rare disease was destroying her vision, they found another problem: a large aneurysm, or blood vessel bulge. The balloon-like weakening of her artery could have burst at any time, which is often deadly. But unlike most smaller aneurysms, it couldn?t easily be treated.

Jazz in the Garden, an event to support the myelin repair research projects of Dr. Ian Duncan and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be held from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday at Cafe 27, 945 Clark St., Wausau.

The local emergency rooms have been especially busy in the late afternoon during the heat wave the past few days. Construction workers are some of the people that cannot escape the heat, and some of them have been at the University of Wisconsin Hospital ER suffering from heat exhaustion. However, the most prominent patients at the ER right now are those with chronic conditions that make heat intolerable.

It was discouraging to read David Wahlberg?s Sunday article about the competitive feud between UW Health and Meriter because we don?t have the dollars to waste on such things.

(Reuters Life!) – People who believe a cold remedy will work may indeed feel better sooner — even if they don?t get the real treatment, according to a U.S. study.

“These findings support the general idea that beliefs and feelings about treatments may be important and perhaps should be taken into consideration when making medical decisions,” wrote lead researcher Bruce Barrett, of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Keeping Hmong food traditions alive in Wisconsin is among the missions of UW-Extension nutrition educator Kazoua Moua. Her pioneering work with Hmong families recently resulted in her being honored as an “Outstanding Woman of Color in Education” by the University of Wisconsin System.