Tag Health care

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.

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.