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Heart health: tool brings people out of the ‘gray zone’
By non-invasively imaging the thickness of carotid arteries — the major vessels running up the neck and supplying the brain with blood — preventive cardiologists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have helped to show people a clearer picture of their chances of developing heart disease or having a stroke.
Media giants don’t always lead to less-diverse content
Just because a big company owns all the media outlets in town doesn’t necessarily mean newspapers and broadcast stations will look and sound alike, according to a review of the research in this area published in the summer issue of the journal Contexts.
Warmer weather, human disturbances interact to change forests
While a rapidly changing climate may alter the composition of northern Wisconsin's forests, disturbances such as logging also will play a critical role in how these sylvan ecosystems change over time.
Forest managers can fight invasive species that come with roads
Road density in northern Wisconsin has doubled during the last 60 years, but forest managers have a time window to fight the non-native plants that often come with construction and overwhelm native plant life, according to new research.
A changing landscape may have dire implications for birds
In their desire to get close to nature by building lakeside cottages and homes in the woods, Americans may very well be hastening the decline of many native bird species that breed in forest habitats.
Lake research offers clues to managing crayfish invasions
Rusty crayfish, an invasive species now crawling across the rocky bottoms of lakes and streams throughout the United States and Canada, may not always have a stronghold once they enter these bodies of water.
UW veterinarians try new drug for equine heart fibrillations
Veterinarians at UW–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine believe they're the first to use the oral drug flecainide to resolve a chronic case of atrial fibrillation in a horse.
States fail to cover smoking cessation treatment for employees
Despite recommendations from federal public health experts that smoking cessation treatment should be provided to all smokers, state employers are failing to provide their employees with recommended smoking cessation treatment coverage, according to a study published in this month's American Journal of Public Health.
Study: Mothers turn fearless when peptide level drops
Everyone knows not to get between a mother and her offspring. What makes these females unafraid when it comes to protecting their young may be low levels of a peptide, or small piece of protein, released in the brain that normally activates fear and anxiety, according to new research published in the August issue of Behavioral Neuroscience.
New England forests at greater risk from air pollution
When it comes to forests, air pollution is not an equal opportunity hazard.
Wasp researcher doesn’t mind an occasional sting
While many people recoil at the sight of a paper-like nest tucked under the eaves or behind a foundation crack, a UW–Madison scientist is one of the few who eagerly await the year's first yellow jackets.
GenTel BioSurfaces awarded more than $900K in small business innovation research grants
Five Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants totaling more than $900,000 have been awarded to GenTel BioSurfaces, Inc. in 2004 by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, company officials announced today (Thursday, July 15).
UW part of national pathogen bioinformatics center
In an effort to speed up research on disease-causing pathogens, including ones that could be used as biological weapons, scientists at UW–Madison will team with an information technology (IT) company, SRA International, Inc., to build an online, publicly accessible library of data on these infectious agents and their genomes.
UW study: Migrating birds offer insight into sleep
A newly published study by a UW–Madison research team points the way to solving two of life's seemingly eternal but unrelated mysteries: how birds that migrate thousands of miles every year accomplish the feat on very little sleep and what that ability means for humans who are seriously sleep-deprived or face significant sleep problems.
Tackling tuberculosis: First steps towards new vaccine
Tuberculosis, a mycobacterium that infects human lungs, still claims the lives of about 2 million people every year. Existing vaccines provide questionable protection, and they can even cause disease in individuals with compromised immune systems.
Social marketing cuts drunken driving in Wisconsin
When off-the-rack messages about the dangers of drinking and driving were falling flat, officials in some rural Wisconsin communities gambled on a more unconventional tack advocated by a retired UW–Madison business professor.
New study shows phonics is critical for skilled reading
By developing a computer model that mimics how children learn to read, two researchers from UW–Madison and Stanford University track the development of a skilled reader, ultimately showing that phonics gives readers an edge, especially early on.
Technology could enhance accuracy of breast biopsy
A new technology developed by a research group headed by Nimmi Ramanujam, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at UW–Madison, will be a "third eye" during breast biopsies and can increase the chance for an accurate clinical diagnosis of breast cancer.
As humans alter land, infectious diseases follow
As people remake the world's landscapes, cutting forests, draining wetlands, building roads and dams, and pushing the margins of cities ever outward, infectious diseases are gaining new toeholds, cropping up in new places and new hosts, and posing an ever-increasing risk to human and animal health. A team of experts warns that widespread changes in the global landscape are providing new opportunities for dozens of infectious diseases.
Futuretruck, hybrid suv to be featured
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s national champion FutureTruck will be featured alongside the first hybrid sport utility vehicle available to consumers at the UW–Madison College of Engineering Wednesday, July 7.