Exercise and diet were each linked to a lower risk of age-related degenerative changes in the eyes, but both combined, along with a lack of smoking, caused a “particularly profound lowering” of the risk — by more than 70 percent, study author Dr. Julie Mares of the University of Wisconsin in Madison told Reuters Health.
It?s the same advice that mothers everywhere have been giving for years, but now there?s science to back it up: Eating veggies is good for the eyes. A new study from the University of Wisconsin confirmed that women who have a healthy diet, exercised regularly and didn?t smoke were less likely to suffer macular degeneration as they got older. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision problems in older people in the United States, researchers said.
A new report shows the air quality at bars and restaurants that had been found to have unhealthy air has improved 92 percent since Wisconsin enacted a smoking ban statewide more than five months ago, according to state officials.
The Department of Health Services joined the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center in looking at the air quality of 200 bars and restaurants before the smoking ban and after.
The report, published by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, measured air quality in more than 200 Wisconsin bars and restaurants both prior to and after the ban?s enactment.
Prayer can help victims of domestic violence deal with their situation and emotions by using coping methods such as venting, a small new study suggests.
Satellite data may give weather forecasters the ability to predict potentially dangerous thunderstorms hours in advance, a U.S. researcher says.
In a study of victims of violent relationships with intimate partners, U.S. researchers found prayer helped them vent their anger.
A very unusual blood transplant appears to have cured an American man living in Berlin of infection with the AIDS virus, but doctors say the approach is not practical for wide use.
According to a UW-Madison study, good grades by high school graduates some 50 years ago may be a factor in good health near retirement age. A study looking at academic performance of 7,000 Wisconsin high school students from 1957 shows the better the students did in school, the better health they had later on in life.
At University Research Park 2, a ribbon of concrete curb curls toward the grove of hardy trees, and graders have smoothed out paths that will become the business park?s main roads.Infrastructure work has begun at the Far Southwest Side site of what officials hope will become another engine of opportunity for the Madison area. Even though building construction probably won?t start until 2012, the 270-acre site bordered by Mineral Point and Pleasant View roads and Highway M could eventually have as many as 10,000 employees, plus houses, shops and restaurants, and a total value that could top $400 million, said research park director Mark Bugher.
According to a study led by Chaeyoon Lim, a sociology professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, the reason religion makes us happy may have more to do with friends than with faith.
Quoted: Bruce Thomadsen, a professor of medical physics at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
UW-Madison wants to lease a Blue Mounds facility as a holding zone for monkeys, allowing the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center to increase the size of its animal colony. The 20,000 square-foot building is owned by Harlan Laboratories, an animal research lab, which closed its operations there in March. The space would be used to quarantine macaque monkeys new to UW-Madison.
Class rank is important for more than just wowing college admissions officers and securing bragging rights. According to new research out of UW-Madison, the better your grades were in high school, the healthier you are years later. It’s not the first time that education has been associated with physical well-being ? more degrees equal better health ? but a study published in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior shows that it’s not only more schooling but performance that makes a difference.
Growing up with divorced parents presents plenty of challenges to children, many of which are well-documented. Time to add another one: college tuition.
Class rank is important for more than just wowing college admissions officers and securing bragging rights. According to new research, the better your grades were in high school, the healthier you are years later.
Good grades in high school might not just help the mind, they might help the body, too
Though he retired 10 years ago from his work as a limnologist at UW-Madison, John Magnuson remains one of the most recognizable and authoritative voices on issues related to climate change in Wisconsin. As a zoologist and as director of the Center for Limnology, Magnuson focused on long-term ecological research on lake systems and the influence of climate change on inland waters.
Attention all former high school over-achievers: Your past honor roll status has effects past college admission, according to a UW-Madison study.
An ongoing research study done on the University of Wisconsin campus for the past 50 years is now being called the seminal study on the ?baby boomer? generation by its researchers.
Numerous studies have shown that religious people report a higher level of well-being compared with the non-religious, says Chaeyoon Lim, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author of the study.
Carol and Gregory Schill flip through their high school yearbooks and an entire era comes roaring back to life, Bermuda shorts and saddle shoes, rock ?n? roll on the radio and quiz shows on TV.
Climate shifts over the past 13,500 years coincide with the emergence of new technologies and cultures in the early Indians of North America.
What you learn in school appears to be critical to your health, according to a study released on Tuesday. The long-term study of more than 10,000 Wisconsin residents who graduated from high school in 1957 concluded that the higher a participant?s school rank was, the lower the probability of worsening health as they approached retirement age four decades later.
“We already know (schooling) matters for things like your work and your earnings, but this proves it also matters for your health,” said Pamela Herd, an associate professor of public affairs and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Home might be where the heart is, but church is a good place to find happiness.Social scientists have long noted that people who are more religious profess greater satisfaction with life, and a new study led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison claims to find why this is so.
Student who gets top grades in high school have better health decades later than those who didn?t make good grades, U.S. researchers suggest.
Members of the University of Wisconsin?s faculty executive committee asked for input regarding a new committee that would oversee management and compliance of campus research during Monday?s Faculty Senate meeting.
Graduates from across Wisconsin, some 30,000 in all, took a survey on their post-high school plans. The data was used to help the University of Wisconsin System chart its future as higher education began to boom in the post-World War II era. The survey also served as a nudge for students, getting them to think about going to college.
Sociology assistant professor Chaeyoon Lim of the University of Wisconsin-Madison said: ?Our study offers compelling evidence that it is the social aspects of religion rather than theology or spirituality that leads to life satisfaction.
As important as your religious beliefs may be to you, they don?t necessarily make you happier, a new study in the American Sociological Review finds. What does make you more satisfied with your life, the study finds, is having friends at your congregation and a strong religious identity.
“Those are the people who give you the sense of belonging,” said lead study author Chaeyoon Lim, of the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Lim conducted the study with Robert Putnam, author of “Bowling Alone” and “American Grace.”
The grand opening of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery and the Morgridge Institutes for Research is a monumental moment in this city?s history. What the moment ultimately means for the human race remains to be seen. But the possibilities are limitless.
It is a boon to Madison that the public/private research facilities have been built here to lure the scientists and researchers and faculty who will find the discoveries promised by the facilities? names.
Innovation in America has been and continues to be one of the great strengths of our economy. This key driver comes from lots of different people and places, but especially from faculty and staff at universities that conduct extensive research. UW-Madison is an outstanding example, especially in the area of human embryonic stem cell research.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
The most important point in human embryonic stem cell research lies in whether or not it is ethical. While the embryos are not from aborted fetuses and are only days old, a significant question still exists: Is it morally right?…Let?s continue looking for answers, but reject embryonic stem cell research at UW-Madison and in the private sector.
In Sunday?s editorial you use the term ?human? embryonic stem cell research, thus identifying that the research is done on ?humans.? It is wrong to do research on humans if it hurts them or kills them. Therefore you and the University of Wisconsin are wrong to promote such research. Lord have mercy on the Wisconsin State Journal and the University of Wisconsin.
Sangtae Kim knows a thing or two about technology transfer, having worked as a UW-Madison and Purdue University scientist, a drug company executive and an official with the prestigious National Science Foundation.
During an opening ceremony, Gov. Jim Doyle praised the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery as the culmination of UW-Madison?s long traditions of interdisciplinary research, scientific breakthroughs and generous philanthropy.
A UW-Madison campus building intended to further scientific knowledge kicks off a series of grand openings today (12/2) The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery is designed not only for researchers, but also to spark interest in science among the general public.
Twin research institutes and a space designed for all to engage in science opened Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A new UW-Madison campus building opened Thursday housing twin research institutes with both public and private sector involvement.
Nearly three dozen protesters decried the absence of union jobs for food service workers in a new UW-Madison building, interrupting the speeches of Governor Doyle and Chancellor Biddy Martin.
Gov. Jim Doyle, along with university leaders and supporters, celebrated on Thursday the grand opening of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The grand opening of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Thursday afternoon was a little more raucous than some had hoped.
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.
Twelve teams of researchers tackling some of today?s most complex health challenges will work in the new 300,000 square-foot Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building, 330 N. Orchard St., where a series of grand opening events will be Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 11.
A Madison company?s stem-cell derived heart cells have been named by The Scientist magazine as one of the top 10 life sciences innovations of 2010.Calling them a symbol of just how fast a basic-science breakthrough can lead to new products, the magazine ranked Cellular Dynamics International?s heart cells fifth on its list.
Cells distributed by the company, known as CDI, are likely the first of many commercially available cell lines from differentiated human stem cells. CDI was founded in 2004 by University of Wisconsin – Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson and others.
Developers of the $205 million Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery expect as many as 2,000 people at two receptions Thursday to celebrate the opening of the public/private research center in the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Excitement is high on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus as a new building is set to open its doors Thursday, and those involved said it wouldn?t have happened if not for the inspiration of two UW alumni.
You eat right and exercise for the health benefits today and hopefully tomorrow.
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.
There?s plenty of anti-Madison sentiment these days, with politicians of all stripes vowing to cut government and reduce spending. Republican Gov.-elect Scott Walker has already stuck his thumb in Madison?s eye by nixing the proposed high-speed rail line that would connect the capital city to Milwaukee.
Another looming question is funding for new technology ventures, which are largely coming out of research at UW-Madison.
After seven years, a team led by UW-Madison is expected to complete work on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica next month – the largest such detector in the world. But the frigid, remote work won?t stop then. The National Science Foundation signed a five-year, $34.5 million with UW-Madison to operate the telescope.
Gov. Jim Doyle broke ground last week on the Wisconsin Energy Institute, which will help the University of Wisconsin-Madison develop new technologies to meet the need of creating renewable energy in the state.
Despite a reputation for poor quality control in its exports, China has made strides in improving food safety regulations in recent years, argued University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Stephanie Tai yesterday.
After seven years, a team led by UW-Madison is expected to complete work on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica next month – the largest such detector in the world. But the frigid, remote work won?t stop then.
Gov. Jim Doyle broke ground Wednesday on the Wisconsin Energy Institute, a new center aiming to support collaboration between energy researchers at UW-Madison.
Well, the awful 2010 election is behind us. Given the results, I recall Gen. George Custer?s last words: “We?ve got ?em where we want ?em. We can shoot in any direction!” Put another way, the Republicans are in total control and they will not play beanbag. But we will hold them accountable for the people of Wisconsin.
….Take a look at the agenda that Walker and his think tank cohort — MacIver Institute, talk show host Charlie Sykes, Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, Bradley Foundation — are drawing up. They will try to rid us of the La Follette legacy — they want to abolish the Public Service Commission, kill public radio and TV, dump civil service, bust the public employee unions, and privatize the UW-Madison.
Welcome to ?Stem Cell Science for Republicans 101.? It?s nice to see so many fresh faces from the incoming class of Wisconsin GOP lawmakers here today. Thank you all for enrolling. We are certain you will learn a lot. We know that because, during your recent election campaigns, a lot of you seemed to have difficulty describing ? much less defending ? your position on human embryonic stem cell research, which is producing exciting results on the UW-Madison campus and increasingly in Wisconsin?s private sector.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
