University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics halted efforts to offer second trimester abortions at the Madison Surgery Center, citing the safety and privacy of patients as the main reason, officials announced Monday.
The Madison Surgery Center will not offer second-trimester abortions after all, according to a news release issued late Monday by UW Health.
“MSC is co-owned by UW Hospital and Clinics, UW Medical Foundation and Meriter Hospital. The MSC board had approved introducing second-trimester abortion care at MSC, but throughout the planning process held patient safety and privacy as the paramount consideration. MSC has now concluded that the open and multi-purpose nature of the 1 S. Park campus makes it very difficult to guarantee the safety and security that all patients deserve.”
UW Health officials said Monday they are no longer looking for a site in Madison to perform second-trimester abortions, handing anti-abortion activists a victory in a nearly two-year battle over the controversial procedure.
The University of Wisconsin?s health system has scrapped plans for late-term abortions at the Madison Surgery Center.
Good grades in high school might not just help the mind, they might help the body, too
The most stressful time of the school semester ? final exams ? will soon be upon college students. But if you develop good stress relieving habits, finals should be a little easier to take, according to UW-Madison?s University Health Services UHS.
Using palm scanning technology for authentication of patients? identities can help improve patient safety and prevent fraud, says Michael Sauk, vice president and CIO at University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics.
During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, when colleges faced unique challenges, a group of large US universities found that preparedness paid off and that students were able to play a key role in response efforts, according to a new report.
Medical amnesty is on its way to becoming an official policy at the University of Wisconsin now that the student government has formally written down its proposal.
In this day and age, when “best of” lists seemingly come out every day, Madison has landed on a list that most living here probably wouldn?t think of: where to live if you?ve retired from the military. In the first ranking of its kind, Madison is No. 7 in “best places for military retirement,” according to the study commissioned by USAA and Military.com.
Ready to work until you are 69 before retiring? Aw, come on—don?t you want to do your share to cut our nation?s trillion-dollar-plus deficit? That proposal is part of a package of recommended spending cuts and tax increases that will be voted on Friday by a national commission President Obama created to come up with ways to reverse the country?s deficit.
Interviewed: Patrick Remington, M.D., professor of population and health sciences and associate dean at the School of Medicine and Public Health
A University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health study found that obese women who never had children or had children after the age of 30 are three times more likely to develop lobular breast cancer.
Doctors diagnosed autism in children by using MRI to track brain circuit activity, according to research that suggests the method may help speed up detection and add to knowledge of the disorder?s biological base.
With the help of 192 Vietnam War veterans, researchers at UW-Madison discovered a link between brain damage and insomnia which was published in a study in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Noted: Dr. John Siebert, with the University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery, said the standard treatment for Parry-Romberg is to wait for the disease to stop progressing before any surgical intervention.
Greg Russo begins his class with the following instructions: 100 jumping jacks, 50 mountain climbers, 25 push-ups and 10 squat/push-up combinations ? and that?s just the warm-up.
Participants bear-crawl, broad-jump and squat their way through the hour long boot camp class ? a new offering through the Madison School & Community Recreation program and an example of the intense direction many of the program?s adult fitness courses started taking this fall.
Quoted: Ronnie Carda, coordinator of UW-Madison?s physical education activity program
Richard Page, now chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, co-authored the large, international study that led to Multaq?s approval in the U.S. by the FDA last year, a move that could mean millions of dollars in sales for Sanofi-Aventis.
Kathy Schultz, a senior marketing consultant with UW Hospitals and Clinics.
According to a national addiction study, Wisconsin still ranks high for binge drinking. And treatment options don?t meet the need.
Researchers are calling on 28 randomly chosen homes in the village of Marathon this week, hoping its residents will participate in a wide-ranging health survey. The team, sent out by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, is asking study participants to share their medical histories, detail their eating and exercise habits and also participate in a few basic medical tests.
MILWAUKEE — The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a $1 million grant to train physicians in geriatric care.The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation awarded the grant, one of 10 awarded to medical schools nationwide.
State inspectors will visit UW Hospital soon to see if a long list of violations found last month has been corrected, including some that could stop the hospital?s Medicare and Medicaid contracts. None of the problems, discovered in response to the reuse of a syringe in July, involves known harm to patients. But inspectors said some cited problems have the potential for harm, such as inadequate hand washing by nurses and use of contaminated gloves. Other issues involve medical records and food safety.
Noted: In Wisconsin, for example, three regional centers are partnering with the University of Wisconsin in one such rural project, the Wisconsin Academy of Rural Medicine. In July, medical students will complete their third and fourth years of medical school in the greater Green Bay area and hopefully return after their training is complete.
The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, a center funded partially by the Dalai Lama, held its grand opening at the Waisman Center Monday.
The University of Wisconsin Foundation is retaining millions of dollars a year from a public endowment over which it was awarded stewardship – much more than the Medical College of Wisconsin is retaining to fulfill similar duties. The foundation?s fees for management of the endowment have become the subject of discussion by an overview board, and they?re being harshly criticized by one of the panel?s members.
Positive factors such as meaningful relationships with others and a sense of purpose can help reduce the negative health impacts of having less schooling, a new study suggests. It is known that lack of education is a strong predictor of poor health and a relatively early death, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison pointed out. But their new study, published online Oct. 18 in the journal Health Psychology, found that peace of mind can reduce the risk.
There?s been a lot of talk about the spread of bed bugs across the country, and now it?s hitting close to home. A small outbreak of the parasitic insect was discovered at a UW Health clinic west of Madison.
A pest control company has had to clean and disinfect a building that houses the administrative offices for the UW Health clinics after officials reported an outbreak of bedbugs.
It?s all about patient security, so says Mike Sauk, chief information officer for UW Hospital and Clinics. The new palm-vein scanning system quickly and easily identifies patients through each person?s unique blood-flow pattern in the palm of their hand. It matches that patient to his electronic health record.
Meriter Hospital is adding clinics north and southeast of Madison and doubling its doctor group so the hospital can be more independent from UW Health, stay financially healthy and put services closer to patients, officials say. The moves, which mark a shift in strategy from a prior plan to greatly expand Meriter?s Park Street headquarters, are not welcomed by UW Health. “We find it unfortunate and think it not in the community?s best interest,” said Dr. Jeff Grossman, head of UW Health?s doctor group.
Being identified at UW Health is now a hands-on experience. Check-in clerks are using devices that scan vein patterns in palms to link patients to their electronic medical records. The scans can also help emergency room staff identify patients unable to speak.
Until the scanners were introduced this month, patients gave their name, date of birth, address and other information when entering UW Hospital or UW Health clinics. But errors can occur because some patients have the same names, said Mike Sauk, UW Health?s chief information officer.
Rogers Memorial Hospital will be opening a mental health facility today in Madison, becoming the city?s only daytime hospitalization program for adults with eating disorders and mental health issues.
Noted: The new study hints that at least some of the increase could be due to schools putting more and more kids in the autism category, said Matthew Maenner, a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who worked on the new study.
It goes by several names; Four Loko, a black out in a can or an alcopop, but no matter what students at a New Jersey college call the energy drink alcohol hybrid, they can no longer drink them on campus after the college president banned them.
Barbara White of Madison, Wis., says she?ll never forget the sight of her mother?s struggling with Alzheimer?s disease. At times, she saw the disease slowly strip her mother away. But, she said, it also brought her siblings together.
It was 5:16 a.m. when the call came in to a 911 dispatcher in Madison, Wisconsin. The story, from Cathy Silver, came out staccato: Cathy?s husband, Jim, was gagging, gasping for air. A nurse at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, Cathy could see that her husband, the father of four grown children, was in cardiac arrest.
Former University of Wisconsin Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala was in Madison Friday to highlight the future of nursing.
Dear Editor: Scott and I have known Tom Barrett a long time, which is why I?m even more disappointed that he continues to lie to you about my husband.
Tom Barrett is using the Jim Doyle playbook by exploiting the plight of those afflicted with diabetes and other diseases in TV ads, falsely telling you that Scott is ?against hope? and that he would ?ban stem cell research.?
When the Badgers battle top-ranked Ohio State at Camp Randall Saturday in this year?s biggest game, the person who started UW?s two-decade football ascent will be in the crowd.
Donna Shalala, who as University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor hired athletic director Pat Richter, who then hired coach Barry Alvarez, who then won three Rose Bowls, says she plans to attend with current Chancellor Biddy Martin.
Noted: Dr. Lee Wilke, director of the UW Health Breast Center and associate professor of surgery, UW Health Breast Center/Carbone Cancer Center.
On Dec. 2 the University of Wisconsin will celebrate the opening of the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery. I wish David Iverson, a former news reporter for Wisconsin?s public television, would be invited to speak on this auspicious occasion.
While many will see this event as a huge investment in innovation technology and higher paying jobs for Wisconsin?s shrinking economy, many of us who suffer daily from disabling chronic diseases see it as a day of hope — hope that this new science facility?s foremost mission is to shorten the period before we are once again whole and free of pain.
Quoted: Dr. Randall Brown, a faculty member at the UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine in the school of medicine and public health.
The median age range of Wisconsin nurses is 45 to 49 years old, compared to 40 to 44 years old for the state?s work force overall, according to a survey released Thursday of the state?s 77,500 registered nurses. The future of nursing will be addressed in a free lecture at UW-Madison Oct. 15 by Donna Shalala, UW?s former chancellor.
When it comes to social media like Facebook, Twitter and texting, parents have a catch-up game to play, said Michael Swanson. ?We see a lot of alcohol, drug and mental health references on Facebook specifically,? said the research specialist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. ?It?s pretty scary in a way.?
If you?re trying to lose weight, you may have more to worry about than what you eat, or how much exercise you get, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that not getting enough sleep may sabotage weight loss efforts because of an association between less sleep and an decrease in fat loss.
The student body government continued working Monday toward providing students amnesty in situations when they or their friends need medical help after a night out drinking.
Common asthma treatments don?t work for everyone and may level off in their effectiveness. So the search is on for something better. UW-Madison participated in a nationwide study of a promising alternative.
A 61-year-old hospital staff member received non-life-threatening injuries Monday morning after being hit by a UW Hospital and Clinics bus in the Marsh Lane pedestrian crosswalk at University Bay Drive, university police said.
A new program is arming small communities for the battle against doctor shortages.The Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM) was started three years ago to attract medical students to smaller markets. The program is part of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
A 61-year-old hospital staff member received non-life-threatening injuries Monday morning after being hit by a UW Hospital and Clinics bus in the Marsh Lane pedestrian crosswalk at University Bay Drive, university police said.
UW Hospital is one of the nation?s top 10 companies for working parents, according to an annual list developed by Working Mother magazine.
Noted: Among the top 10 are Bank of America, Deloitte, Discovery, Ernst & Young, General Mills and IBM. A surprising but welcome addition is the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, which last year spent $1.6 million on tuition to help employees pursue certifications and academic degrees.
UW Hospital is one of the nation?s top 10 companies for working parents, according to an annual list developed by Working Mother magazine.
Orthopedic surgeons who were paid millions by medical device manufacturers often failed to disclose their financial ties in their published research, according to a new study that mirrors findings of an ongoing Journal Sentinel investigation. The new study found that nearly half of orthopedic surgeons who made at least $1 million from any of five orthopedic device makers in 2007 did not have that relationship published in their scientific articles in 2008.
A member of the University of Wisconsin Foundation Board of Directors appeared in federal court last week to answer to charges of importing and selling counterfeit prescription drugs, officials said.
Marla Ahlgrimm has built a reputation as a savvy entrepreneur in the field of hormone treatments for menstrual and menopause symptoms, and as a generous community figure ? especially in UW-Madison circles. But now Ahlgrimm is accused of conspiring to illegally import and sell millions of doses of fake Viagra and painkillers, as well as prescription stimulants and tranquilizers. The allegations have led some clients and their doctors to question the services provided by Ahlgrimm?s business empire, while prompting her professional associates to express disbelief.
Governor Doyle and UW officials are absolutely right to join the effort to appeal a recent federal court ruling that has stopped major stem cell research dead in its tracks. Sometimes you wonder if it?s worth the effort to devote resources to issues being decided at the federal level, but the impacts of this ruling on the state of Wisconsin, and the citizens of the state of Wisconsin are too significant to ignore.
Noted: With support from the Greenwall Foundation, researchers from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee asked a small group of doctors involved in high-risk elective operations about withdrawal of life support, advance directives and informed consent and presented clinical scenarios that involved withdrawing care.
A University of Wisconsin research center received thousands in grant money from one of the world?s most famous holy figures Wednesday.
The donation of $50,000 is from the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso?s, personal trust fund, UW spokesperson Jill Sakai said, and will be used by the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds to further research.
A local hospital is getting thousands in hopes of better serving the needs of kids facing cancer.
