Category Health & Wellness
Department of Surgery triples its named chairs and professorships in 2015
The department raised $17.5 million and established 11 new chairs and professorships, increasing its number of endowments to 16.
A compassionate approach leads to more help and less punishment
Understanding what motivates people to be altruistic can not only inform our own behaviors, it may also play a role in creating more just societal institutions.
UNESCO selects Yoshihiro Kawaoka as winner of Carlos J. Finlay Prize
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a prominent influenza and Ebola researcher, was selected for his overall contributions to the field of microbiology.
UW System Regents, officials tour Waisman Center
UW System officials recently toured the Waisman Center, known for its groundbreaking work helping people with developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative disorders.
When brain metabolism dips, desire goes up in monkeys on ‘female Viagra’
As “the female Viagra” comes to market, researchers are learning more about how the drug affects the brain.
Creating pathways: connecting American Indian students to health professions
In the last several years, NACHP and the School of Nursing have been working to break down barriers that deter American Indian students from pursuing careers in health fields with the larger vision of improving the health and wellness of American Indian communities in Wisconsin.
Researchers forge primitive human leukemia cells in lab
By generating cells with the properties of primitive human leukemia cells, researchers have established a model for studying chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) stem cells, potentially leading to better treatment options.
‘Live from Paris’ will connect Wisconsin with UN climate conference
Faculty and state business leaders in Paris to attend COP21 (Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) will connect to campus via video conferencing for a live discussion.
UHS psychologist hopes to help international students succeed
Students seek counseling at University Health Services for a variety of reasons. Now speakers of Mandarin have another option -- and advocate -- in Chinese native Canzi Wang.
Innovative cancer treatment machine: Still made in Wisconsin
Innovator-entrepreneur Thomas “Rock” Mackie’s TomoTherapy, launched in 1997, remains one of the universities’ most successful spinoff companies.
Josh Medow: Critical care for the brain
At Joshua Medow's first job, in the Neurocritical Intensive Care Unit at UW Hospital and Clinics, he saves lives. His patients have endured strokes, car accidents and shootings.
Ned Kalin wins Anna-Monika Prize for neuroscience research
Ned Kalin, chair of psychiatry at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, will receive a major award this week at a conference in Amsterdam for his work in uncovering the signature of anxiety and depression in the brain.
Flu study, on hold, yields new vaccine technology
Vaccines to protect against an avian influenza pandemic as well as seasonal flu may be mass produced more quickly and efficiently using technology described today (Sept. 2) by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the journal Nature Communications.
Morgridge Institute selects Pagliarini to lead campus metabolism initiative
Dave Pagliarini, a University of Wisconsin–Madison associate professor whose departmental home put metabolism research on the map worldwide, will help define the future of Wisconsin metabolism science as a lead investigator at the Morgridge Institute for Research.
Wireless microcamera clusters broaden laparoscopic imaging
A revolutionary integrated imaging system under development at the University of Wisconsin–Madison could significantly advance laparoscopy, a minimally invasive surgical procedure that, over the last half century, has seen only incremental improvements in imaging.
Report: Bicycling deaths have decreased, but adults remain at elevated risk
Overall rates for U.S. biking deaths decreased 44 percent from 1975 to 2012, according to a new report published Aug. 14 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and led by Jason Vargo, an assistant scientist with UW–Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Global Health Institute.
Dietary intervention primes triple-negative breast cancer for targeted therapy
A diet that starves triple-negative breast cancer cells of an essential nutrient primes the cancer cells to be more easily killed by a targeted antibody treatment, UW Carbone Cancer Center scientists report in a recent publication.
Gift to Morgridge Institute ‘Fab Lab’ to boost medical device innovations
A gift to the Morgridge Institute for Research will help spur medical device innovations coming directly from doctors - the people who know firsthand where the advances are needed.
UW-Madison collaboration promotes well-being in the workplace
Standing in front of a room of business professionals, Jill McDermott shares a number: two quadrillion - the number of megabytes of information broadcast daily. She pauses to let the audience reflect on how this inundation of information contributes to distractions in the workplace that can chip away at a person's well-being and ability to respond to daily challenges, whether it's giving projects the attention they deserve or shaking off a setback or conflict with a colleague.
Protein Suggests a New Strategy to Thwart Infection
The newfound ability of a protein of the intestines and lungs to distinguish between human cells and the cells of bacterial invaders could underpin new strategies to fight infections.