Stories indexed under: Health care

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  • Law School, Thompson to host health care summit April 1, 2009 On Tuesday, April 7, the Law School and one of its prominent alumni — former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson — will host “Summit Conversations on American Health Care for the 21st Century” at the Edgewater Hotel.
  • Wisconsin Partnership to join fight against silent tragedy Feb. 9, 2009 Earlier this decade, an African American baby born in Beloit, Kenosha, Milwaukee or Racine had worse odds for survival than a baby born in Jamaica, Sri Lanka or Central America.
  • Organization helps save lives through organ donation Nov. 28, 2008 The slogan "Got your dot?" has quickly worked to raise the rates at which Wisconsinites place an orange donor dot on their driver's license and say "yes" to donation.
  • Kramer honored for research in end-of-life care Nov. 20, 2008 Research done by University of Wisconsin-Madison social work professor Betty Kramer on end-of-life care has won her the Distinguished Researcher Award from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
  • CHESS grant to focus on reducing addiction relapse Nov. 10, 2008 A five-year, $2.8 million grant awarded to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will study ways to reduce relapse through the latest in communication technology.
  • Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies awarded $8.6 million NIH grant Nov. 3, 2008 The Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS) has been awarded a second grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to continue its role as a leader in cancer communication research.
  • Cramer Walsh Doughnuts, politics and a look into Wisconsin's views and values Oct. 31, 2008 A knot of older men gather around a table in a Madison-area bakery each morning to laugh, crack wise, talk about politics over doughnuts and warm themselves with round after round of hot coffee.
  • Chances for post-election health reform examined during La Follette lecture Oct. 22, 2008 Is America primed for health care reform? That’s one of the questions Thomas Oliver will address at a free public lecture at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at the La Follette School of Public Affairs.
  • Initiative positions Wisconsin to become leader in personalized medicine Oct. 13, 2008 Wisconsin may soon become an international leader in personalized medicine, a simple concept that has the potential to revolutionize healthcare.
  • e-Care of Wisconsin provides 24/7 bedside monitoring July 29, 2008 UW Hospital is preparing to introduce an around-the-clock monitoring system called e-Care that will provide additional support to bedside caregivers.
  • Photo of RFID chip Can RFID technology promote a safer blood supply? Feb. 26, 2008 Radio frequency identification technology, or RFID, has inspired many novel applications of late, including efforts to study magazine reader patterns, access restricted areas, locate stolen vehicles and track luggage at major airports.
  • ACTION Campaign Meets Initial Goal to Enlist 500 Agencies Nationwide Jan. 24, 2008 In the four short months since its launch in October 2007, the University of Wisconsin-Madison-based ACTION Campaign to combat substance abuse has already met its initial goal to enlist 500 agencies nationwide.
  • Take part in National Depression Screening Day Oct. 2, 2007 An estimated one million people in Wisconsin, and 16 percent of all Americans, are suffering from depression — and many don’t recognize the symptoms or know where to turn for help. As part of National Depression Screening Day on Thursday, Oct. 11, Wisconsin Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton encourages you to take a confidential screening.
  • Leaders in addiction treatment announce national ‘ACTION’ campaign Oct. 1, 2007 A cadre of private and public entities in the addiction treatment field announced the launch of the National Adopting Changes to Improve Outcomes Now (ACTION) Campaign for the improvement of addiction treatment services. The ACTION Campaign goals are to increase access to addiction treatment for individuals in need and to keep clients engaged in treatment.
  • NIH MERIT award advances fetal alcohol research Aug. 17, 2007 Susan Smith, a professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a prestigious MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health, which provides research funding for up to 10 years. Smith is an expert on fetal alcohol exposure, the leading known cause of mental retardation in the world.
  • Image from a brain scan Clinical depression linked to abnormal emotional brain circuits Aug. 15, 2007 In what may be the first study to use brain imaging to look at the neural circuits involved in emotional control in patients with depression, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that brains of people with clinical depression react very differently than those of healthy people when trying to cope with negative situations.
  • New program to prevent substance abuse offered at 20 clinics statewide June 13, 2007 A federally funded, state-administered screening and assistance program to fight substance abuse - the fourth leading cause of death in Wisconsin - is now offered at 20 clinics around Wisconsin in settings as varied as inner-city Milwaukee, the rural northwest, and two tribal health clinics.
  • Patient and doctor UW study to clarify safety, effectiveness of hormone therapy during menopause May 22, 2007 When is the best time in a woman's reproductive history to start hormone therapy? How does estrogen therapy affect a woman's cognition and mood? What is the most beneficial form of estrogen? These are just a few important questions that researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health hope to answer in a federally funded nationwide study, the first of its kind, on the effects of estrogen therapy with perimenopausal women.
  • Study: Online information may improve cancer patients’ opinions about doctors March 20, 2007 Accessing high-quality health information on the Internet may improve breast cancer patients' opinions about their doctors, according to a new study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center of Excellence in Cancer Communications Research, funded by the National Cancer Institute.