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UW Researchers Eliminate Cervical Cancer in Mice with FDA-Approved Drugs

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin - Researchers at the University of Wisconsin 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. Published in this week's ...

Alzheimer's Disease Annual Update: Answering Questions About Genetic Risk

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...

Alzheimer's Disease Annual Update: Creating New Standards of Care

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

To demonstrate the struggles and embarrassment inherent to Alzheimer's disease, Dr. Cameron Camp, director of Hearthstone Alzheimer's Care and a presenter at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health's "Alzheimer's Disease: Ann...

Mouse Study Sheds Light on Hearing Loss in Older Adults

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin - Becoming "hard of hearing" is a standard but unfortunate part of aging: A syndrome called age-related hearing loss affects about 40 percent of people over 65 in the United States, and will afflict an estimated 28 million American...

UW Launches Study of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin - Why do some veterans return from war able to move beyond the horrors they experienced while others suffer ongoing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? The answer may lie in differences in how their brains process anxiety and an...

Agenda Set for Wisconsin United for Health Foundation Meeting

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

The Audit Committee of the Wisconsin United for Health Foundation, Inc. will meet on November 9, 2009, beginning at 4pm, in the offices of Quarles & Brady, 411 East Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 2400, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202. The Committee will cons...

Groundbreaking Nears for UW Health Fertility Clinic

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin - 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 Fer...

Greg Nycz joins NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin - Greg Nycz, Executive Director of the Family Health Center of Marshfield, Inc., and a key public representative to the UW School of Medicine and Public Health's Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP), has been named to the National I...

Athletes Behaving Badly Provide Opportunity to Talk About Peer Pressure

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin - Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, apparently busted for using performance-enhancing drugs. New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress, sentenced to two years in jail for discharging a gun in public. Tennis star Serena Willia...

UW-Madison Part of Community News Project Focusing on Health Care

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin - The debate over health care reform has dominated national headlines for most of the summer and fall. Now, it's Madison's turn. Through the end of October, more than two dozen local media outlets, under the banner All Together Now...

UW to Begin Research Into Disparities in Heart and Lung Disease

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

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

UW-Madison Launches H1N1 Study with Asthma Sufferers

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin - The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) is one of just seven research centers conducting the first clinical trial in the nation to determine the dose of H1N1 vaccine necessary to give immunity to p...

Could Ancient Virus Genes Help Fight Modern AIDS?

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin — Almost 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, scientists have yet to find an effective vaccine against HIV, the virus that destroys the immune system and causes AIDS. HIV is perhaps the most adaptive virus ever seen, not only eva...

Wisconsin Partnership Awards Grants for Community Academic Partnerships

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health's Wisconsin Partnership Program, through its Oversight and Advisory Committee (OAC), has awarded approximately $1.3 million to six Community Academic Partnerships around Wisconsin. The ...

UW Researcher: There Could be as Many as 200 Cold Viruses

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin — Bad news for the immune system: New research has boosted the number of likely common-cold viruses waiting to make you miserable from the long-accepted 100 to perhaps double that number. James Gern, MD, of the University of ...

UW Study: Most Mothers Don't Get Adequate Depression Treatment

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin — Most mothers with depression in the United States do not receive adequate treatment for their disease, according to a new study at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. And the problem is especia...

UW's Fiore Earns National Honor for Advocacy Work

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin — Michael Fiore, MPH, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, is one of two physicians in the nation to receive the 2009 Physician Advocacy Merit Award from the Institu...

NIH Stimulus Grant to Fund New Physiology Faculty Member

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin — Thanks to a $1 million stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Physiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health will soon begin searching for a new assistant pr...

UW-Madison Study: Social Media Influences Adolescent Behavior

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin — Parents have long believed — and research bears out — that teenagers are more apt to pursue risky behavior if they believe "everybody's doing it." Now, in a first-of-its-kind study, a University of Wisconsin-Mad...

Family Medicine Faculty Visit China in Continuation of Exchange Program

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

In August, three Department of Family Medicine (DFM) faculty — Valerie Gilchrist, MD; Sandra Kamnetz, MD; and Kenneth Kushner, PhD — traveled to China as part of an ongoing exchange program between the DFM, Columbia University, and Beijin...

High-Speed Genetic Analysis Looks Deep Inside Primate Immune System

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin — Viruses such as HIV and influenza take safe harbor in cells, where they cannot be recognized directly by the immune system. The immune response relies on infected cells announcing the presence of the virus by studding their...

Study of Smoking Among the Poor Reveals Striking Findings

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Madison, Wisconsin — In some of Milwaukee's poorest neighborhoods, nearly half of all adults are addicted to cigarettes, despite the fact that prices are nearing $9 a pack while many household incomes are below $15,000. A Wisconsin research pro...

Partnership Seeking Nominations for Oversight and Advisory Committee Member

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

The Wisconsin Partnership Program is seeking nominations to replace a public member vacancy on the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Oversight and Advisory Committee (OAC) in the categories of advocates representing an urban or minority communi...

Information Sessions Set for Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

In September 2009, the Wisconsin Partnership Program, Oversight and Advisory Committee (OAC) released the Request for Proposals for the Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families (LIHF) Community Action Planning Grants. The LIHF reflects the Wisconsi...

Young Art Students Help Combat Blindness Foundation Celebrate 25th Anniversary

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT

More than 40 Middleton-Cross Plains middle school students are getting an insight into blindness by participating in the 25th anniversary of the Combat Blindness Foundation (CBF). The foundation was established in 1984 by Dr. Suresh Chandra, UW Healt...