Stories indexed under: School of Medicine and Public Health

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• The healing game: How Nintendo's Wii is making the hard work of physical therapy into child's play June 10, 2009 Pediatric physical therapists at American Family Children's Hospital have been introducing Wii video gaming techology into their patients' therapy programs with notable success.
• Culture, not biology, underpins math gender gap June 1, 2009 For more than a century, the notion that females are innately less capable than males at doing mathematics, especially at the highest levels, has persisted in even the loftiest circles.
• Curiosities: Why do the blue eyes of babies often turn brown? June 1, 2009
• Treating Wisconsin's cancer patients, in Madison or just down the street May 28, 2009 When Meg Gaines accompanied a patient to a recent appointment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, she gauged the center's impact right away.
• Special protein helps maintain an efficient brain May 18, 2009 The instruction manual for maintaining an efficient brain may soon include a section on synaptotagmin-IV (Syt-IV), a protein known to influence learning and memory, thanks to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
• Early Alzheimer's diagnosis offers large social, fiscal benefits May 18, 2009 Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease could save millions or even billions of dollars while simultaneously improving care, according to new work by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
• Cancer researcher wins Shaw Award May 14, 2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison cancer researcher Jing Zhang received a Shaw Scientist Award last week from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation to support her novel research on the roles cancer stem cells may play in the causes and treatment of cancer.
• National Children's Study set to roll out in Waukesha May 7, 2009 The National Children's Study's Waukesha County Vanguard Center begins recruiting volunteers on Monday, May 11, to take part in the largest long-term study of children's health and development ever conducted in the U.S.
• UW-Madison to create national Alzheimer’s research center May 5, 2009 Gov. Jim Doyle announced today (May 4) that the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) has been awarded a multimillion dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
• Building a health community through the Wisconsin Idea April 30, 2009
• UW-Madison researcher wins Hartwell Foundation Award April 30, 2009 The Hartwell Foundation has named Laura J. Knoll, associate professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, one of 12 winners of its 2008 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards.
• Swine flu 101: UW faculty discuss latest information today, April 29 April 29, 2009 Three of Wisconsin’s leading minds on infectious disease are teaming up today to offer medical professionals, and interested members of the public, the facts they need to know about swine flu.
• Remington appointed new associate dean for public health April 20, 2009 Patrick L. Remington, MD, MPH, who has spent his entire career at the interface of public health and medicine, has been appointed the first associate dean for public health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
• Sleep: Spring cleaning for the brain? April 2, 2009 If you've ever been sleep-deprived, you know the feeling that your brain is full of wool.
• Researcher uses GPS to find asthma causes April 2, 2009 David Van Sickle is looking for a few pioneering asthmatics. He wants to attach a GPS device to their inhalers before they boldly go out into a spring world filled with allergens.
• Engineering students use EPA funding to conserve water at medical school complex April 2, 2009 A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering and science students are working to drastically reduce the amount of water used on the grounds of one of the university's latest building projects, and they've received funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to do it.
• Landscape found to influence spread of malaria in Amazon March 31, 2009 The spread of malaria, one of the world's most prevalent insect-borne diseases and a leading killer of children, may have more to do with landscape than precipitation as the world warms, according to a new study.
• HealthDay writer named biomedical writer in residence March 25, 2009 HealthDay writer Amanda Gardner has already made the transition many other journalists now face — from writing for the print media to the virtual world. Gardner will be the School of Medicine and Public Health’s biomedical writer in residence the week of March 30.
• UW School of Medicine and Public Health sets school record for residency placement March 20, 2009 With a record-high rate of graduating medical students matching into their desired residency on March 19, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health leaders are cheering another highlight: More students are choosing to stay in the state for their residency training and about 40 percent plan to pursue a residency in primary care – where physicians nationwide are badly needed.
• UW-Madison medical student invited to White House for health care reform forum March 6, 2009 Last December, when Siavash Sarlati responded to President-elect Barack Obama's national challenge and organized an informal health care reform discussion group in his father's Milwaukee home, he never dreamed it would turn into a trip to the White House.