Stories indexed under: Women's health

Total: 6

  • UW study will explore anemia Nov. 7, 2011 To say a pregnant woman is eating for two leaves out a few guests at the table - trillions of them, according to Christopher Coe, a University of Wisconsin-Madison psychology professor who will soon begin studying anemia with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
  • Major grant aims at breaking the habit of implicit bias Oct. 11, 2010 A University of Wisconsin-Madison doctor who has long worked to increase the entry of women into the scientific workforce has won a grant to develop video games to uncover and neutralize implicit, unintentional biases against women, minorities and people with disabilities.
  • UW-Madison part of consortium addressing cervical cancer in Hmong women March 25, 2010
  • Researchers Paul Lambert (left) and Sang-Hyuk Chung FDA-approved drugs eliminate, prevent cervical cancer in mice Nov. 9, 2009 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health have eliminated cervical cancer in mice with two FDA-approved drugs currently used to treat breast cancer and osteoporosis.
  • UW-Madison awarded grant to address sexual assault, stalking, dating violence Jan. 22, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been selected to receive a three-year, $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office on Violence Against Women to help address the causes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
  • 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.