The brains of people under anesthesia respond to stimuli as they do in the deepest part of sleep – lending credence to a developing theory of consciousness and suggesting a new method to assess loss of consciousness in conditions such as coma.
Using a class of drugs being clinically tested to treat other kinds of cancer, researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health found that the drugs were the first to stop the latent form of EBV infection from causing disease.
From insulin resistance to urban planning policy, a new project funded by the Wisconsin Partnership Program will apply the widest possible lens to barriers to health and physical activity among Latino youth in Milwaukee.
Despite dire predictions about listening to loud music, members of the rock ‘n’ roll generation are aging with much better hearing than their parents had at the same age.
Dr. Yolanda Becker has spent her medical career transplanting organs. Now she’ll be a key part of the governmental body that helps to keep organ transplantation safe and effective.
The pleasing aroma of bubble gum, orange or vanilla is changing the way many young patients are sedated for certain medical procedures.
A sugar-like substance used for years in medical imaging is about to be tested in clinical trials to see if it can protect people who suffer from frequent epileptic seizures.
Parents leave the hospital with a newborn who looks perfectly healthy. But a short time later, their doctor calls to say that the baby has had an abnormal screening-test result and needs follow-up testing.
The bright lights, big crowds and bustle that make the holidays fun for most of us often do just the opposite for people with Alzheimer’s and those who care for them.
Decreased use of post-menopausal hormones likely accounts for more than 40 percent of a dramatic, one-year decline in breast cancer incidence, according to a new analysis by University of Wisconsin-Madison cancer researchers. The analysis, the first of its kind to measure the effects of hormone therapy cessation on breast cancer incidence, is being presented this …
Twenty-one panels, each one 144 feet square. Each of the 21 panels tells eight human stories, in colorful thread, of the lives of loved ones lost to the ravages of HIV/AIDS. Since its creation in 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt has served as a powerful, unforgettable reminder that HIV/AIDS remains a deadly disease, even as …
Indeed, says Robert McGrath, a clinical psychologist specializing in mind/body wellness at University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and for many reasons. “Humor results in a general decrease in stress hormones. Vigorous laughter temporarily increases the heart rate, benefits the immune system, increases alertness, and exercises skeletal muscles. Levels of epinephrine and dopamine …
While an elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test can be frightening news for men, new research shows that sometimes the levels are caused by a naturally occurring hormone, and may not indicate a need for a biopsy. Elevated levels of PSA have traditionally been seen as a potential sign of prostate cancer, leading to the widespread …
The School of Medicine and Public Health 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 people with asthma.