A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health offers promise for a double-duty treatment that may provide both immune suppression and anti-HCV activity in a single drug.
Smoking rates among military personnel are up, but an innovative Wisconsin program is helping them quit smoking or chewing tobacco.
As a part of “School on the Square,” undergraduates from the Dietetics and Nutrition Club help kids and their families make edible jewelry from food purchased at the Dane County Farmers’ Market on Saturday, June 9. The club has been incorporating concepts of nutrition and fresh produce into children’s activities at the weekly farmers’ market …
UW-Madison dietetics students are working to incorporate nutrition and fresh produce into children’s activities by making edible jewelry at the farmers’ market.
UW-Madison’s new master of public health program is opening opportunities for students in all areas of health, including veterinary medicine.
A multi-institutional team of engineers, scientists and clinicians from the University of Wisconsin-Madison will study large-artery biomechanics that could play a role in heart failure in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch, a partnership between a UW-Madison center and a local nonprofit organization, is working to introduce locally grown products into elementary schools around the area.
Any photographer can vouch for the difficulty of capturing a clear picture of a moving target. When it comes to molecules, however, sometimes the motion is exactly what scientists want to see.
Why is it that actions we think will improve a situation more often than not make it worse?
Everyday experience and psychology research both indicate that paying close attention to one thing can keep you from noticing something else.
It’s a Milwaukee Brewers fan’s dream: Spend the summer at Miller Park, get paid to do it, and get some resume-building professional experience to boot. This month, UW-Madison seniors Maureen Riley and Hannah Buchen begin summer internships with Milwaukee Sportservice, the company that provides food, beverage and retail services to Milwaukee’s Miller Park.
Jennifer Eddy, a physician at UW Health’s Eau Claire Family Medicine Clinic and an assistant professor of family medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, is conducting the first randomized, double-blind controlled trial of honey for diabetic ulcers.
Sleep remains one of the big mysteries in biology. All animals sleep, and people who are deprived of sleep suffer physically, emotionally and intellectually. But nobody knows how sleep restores the brain.
In 1928, Alexander Fleming opened the door to treating bacterial infections when he stumbled upon the first known antibiotic in a Penicillium mold growing in a discarded experiment.
Though cell movement and migration in the body play a central role in mediating injury and disease, including inflammatory responses and cancer metastasis, drugs designed to stifle cells’ nomadic tendencies are scarce. A new interdisciplinary research project funded by the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery seed grant program seeks to develop a novel drug-discovery process that may start to fill this gap.
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is characterized by infertility due to anovulation, abnormal secretion of androgens and other hormones, and insulin resistance. PCOS is the most common female endocrine disorder, affecting 4-7 percent of women in their reproductive years — the syndrome accounts for 75 percent of all anovulations. PCOS has staggering adverse physiological, psychological and financial consequences for women’s reproductive health.
In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison have found evidence that social interactions among young mice result from basic motivations to be with one another. What’s more, the researchers say, the extent of a young mouse’s gregariousness is influenced by its genetic background.
Since the 1950s, doctors have been ordering medications such as Ritalin to ease symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and prescriptions now number in the millions. Still, though highly effective, so-called “psychostimulant” drugs are not without risks, leaving many seeking safer alternatives, especially for children.
Gene therapy – the idea of using genetic instructions rather than drugs to treat disease – has tickled scientists’ imaginations for decades, but is not yet a viable therapeutic method. One sizeable hurdle is getting the right genes into the right place at the right time.
With support from the Discovery Seed Grant Program, Wisconsin scientists are poised to bring a novel approach to finding new medicines by deploying the atomic force microscope — the foremost tool of the nanotechnologist — to screen agents as they dock with critical cell receptors.