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Alzheimer's Disease Annual Update: To Know or Not to Know

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Do you want to know when you're going to die?A modified version of that question - do you want to know if you're going to get Alzheimer's disease, and when? - is the basis for the ongoing REVEAL study. Dr. Robert Green, a genetics fellow at Harvard M...

UW Health Raises $70,637 at Heart Walk

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Donna Katen-Bahensky, UW Hospital CEO, is pictured with Dan White and Dr. Nancy Sweitzer at the Heart WalkMADISON - UW Health patients, clinicians and staff joined Team UW Health at Warner Park on October 10 to raise $70,636.82 in support of the Amer...

At Home Dialysis Helps Patients Return to a Normal Life

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - Leading a "normal" life can be relatively impossible for people who require dialysis treatments. "Being tethered to a dialysis machine for three to five hours a day, three days a week is very disruptive to a person’s attempts to live...

Children's Hospital Provides Specialized Emergency Medical Care for Kids

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

You are watching your daughter playing softball one evening, when suddenly she is hit on the head by a line drive. It is after hours. Your child is in serious pain and you are very worried. You head straight to the Emergency Department at the UW's A...

Fab Five One Remarkable Week, Five Heart Transplants

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - This past April, in the middle of Donate Life Month, surgeons with the UW Transplant Program did something they've never done before: They performed five heart transplants in a single week, prolonging the lives of five patients, from as ne...

Flu Vaccine Status

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

If you have flu-like symptoms and have a clinic appointment, please call your clinic before coming to your visit (please refer to our Locations and Maps listing for phone numbers). UW Health has a limited supply of H1N1 vaccine available for pregnant...

Heart Disease Myths

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - Think you know about your heart? Your doctor may disagree. Cardiovascular medicine faculty at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health say they've heard plenty of myths about heart disease - and patients who believe ...

Later Birth Order May Decrease Breast-Cancer Risk

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - Does having older siblings help protect a woman from breast cancer? It might, if she were breastfed as an infant. A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center looked at early-life risk factors to see if the ...

Pediatric Obesity Can Lead to Adult Orthopedic Problems

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON — Overweight child today, orthopedic patient in twenty years. That's the fear of a growing number of pediatricians and orthopedic surgeons, many of whom are concerned that the indirect effects of childhood obesity will develop into more...

Saving Two Lives with One Surgery

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - When Stephanie White had some recent photos taken with her new baby, Charles Baskaya Zeinert, she dressed in white, and they both wore angel wings. It symbolized their near brush with death, and the fact that they're both lucky to have made...

UW Hospital and Clinics Earns Magnet Recognition

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Watch UW Hospital and Clinics leadership and staff reflect on Magnet Recognition®MADISON - No one enjoys being a patient, or seeing a loved one in need of health care. But when the time comes, it helps to know the care you need is delivered by n...

Brace Yourself: Are Ankle Braces Effective for Preventing Injuries?

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON- Ankle braces are great at preventing athletic injuries. Or are they?In the first study of its kind to focus on high school basketball players, a pair of researchers with University of Wisconsin Sports Medicine will try to answer that questio...

Free and Clear: A Young Woman's Struggle with Ulcerative Colitis

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - This past June, Katie Hopwood something she wouldn't have been able to do three months earlier. She stood up as a bridesmaid in her brother's wedding in Pontiac, Ill. Over the previous three years, Hopwood had trouble standing-or doing muc...

Groundbreaking Nears for UW Health Fertility Clinic

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - A groundbreaking ceremony for construction of the new UW Health reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) clinic is scheduled for 7am Monday in Middleton next to the Transformations Clinic off the Beltline. Generations Fertility Care...

Join Our New Online Community

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - We are your mother, your son, your sister. We're your neighbors, your best friend, someone you haven't met yet. We are your caregivers, researchers, and the thousands of other people who provide comfort and care when you need it. We are Our...

Progress Against Cancer Addressed at Symposium

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - Are we winning the war against cancer? The question, posed by the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center's eighth annual cancer symposium, refers to President Nixon's declaration of a so called 'war on cancer' when he signed the Nati...

Combat Blindness Foundation Celebrates 25 Years of Sight-saving Work

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - The 25th anniversary of saving or restoring the sight of more than 130,000 people around the world will be celebrated on Wednesday night by an organization founded by a UW Health ophthalmologist. The Combat Blindness Foundation (CBF), found...

Madison Hospitals Ask Public to Follow Flu Recommendations

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON – Some people with H1N1 symptoms may be risking an unnecessary emergency room bill and could put other patients and health care workers at risk by not following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for seeking emergency...

Funk Out Concert to Raise Funds for Cancer Center

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

http://vidego.multicastmedia.com/player.php?p=sia509qqAl Falaschi, Phat Phunktion band member and Katie Falaschi's husband, shares her inspiring story MADISON - "Katie Gates" graduated from Arizona State University in 2000, and moved to Madison in ...

Sparkle of Hope

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Master of Ceremonies Rita Britt (right) with Lynn MaurerMADISON - A survey of women with gyncologic cancers found that they prefer the term, "female pelvic cancers" over the medical term, gyn cancers. Whether it is gyn cancers or female pelvic canc...

Risk Reduction Options for Breast Cancer

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Dr. Amye Tevaarwerk shares five things women should know about breast cancer.MADISON - Imagine seriously considering a double mastectomy, without any sign of breast cancer. Yet, every day, there are women at high risk for breast cancer who are thinki...

Health Care Reform Legislation to Counter Nursing Faculty Shortage

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - With a critical shortage of nursing-school faculty looming nationwide, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) has incorporated into health reform legislation a provision that significantly expands graduate degree loan repayment for nurs...

University of Wisconsin Launches Innovative Research into State's Health Disparities

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - With the help of a $5.2 million federal stimulus-program grant, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is developing a program to focus on disparities in heart and lung disease in Wisconsin, two of the most signif...

Follow the UW Carbone Cancer Center's Symposium on Twitter: Oct. 23

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

On Friday at the UW Carbone Cancer Center's annual symposium, we'll be tweeting live throughout the day from a variety of sessions. Follow us at www.twitter.com/uwcarbone to get these exclusive sneak peeks at the conference, while it's happening. We'...

School Bullying a Serious Problem on the Internet

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

MADISON - Internet technology has taken the age-old problem of bullying to a new and troubling level.Long gone are the days when the school bully was just the kid who calls a bespectacled student "four eyes" or annoyingly tugs on a girl's pigtails du...