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Tasty Solution: Better beverages for people who have trouble swallowing

August 23, 2013

After having a stroke in 2008, Jan Blume lost the ability to swallow for two full years. As she slowly regained that vital function, she faced a new challenge: drinking the thickened beverages that are recommended for people with swallowing problems, or dysphagia. She found the drinks almost intolerable.

Waisman early childhood alum pursues career of caring

August 20, 2013

When Bridget Muldowney was a little girl, she and her friends at the Waisman Early Childhood Program (WECP) would look up from the playground every time the noisy Med Flight helicopter landed at UW Hospital across the street. Today, she’s across the street herself.

Essential mechanism of symbiosis found in Hawaiian squid

August 14, 2013

Experiments at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a small squid that glows in the dark have uncovered a complex conversation that allows the newly hatched squid to attract the glowing, symbiotic bacteria that disguises it against predators.

UW researchers witness new type of cell division, use it to battle cancer

August 2, 2013

While on their way to finding a means to attack certain types of cancers, the researchers made the first observations of cytofission in humans, a type of cell division that occurs at a different time than normal division.

Longtime medical school mentor Don Schalch, 83, enjoys the journey

July 26, 2013

Although he retired in 1999, Don Schalch still rides his bicycle 12 miles round trip to work at the School of Medicine and Public Health every day as a part-time faculty member - at age 83.

Pioneering UW nursing educator Signe Skott Cooper dies at 92

July 17, 2013

Signe Skott Cooper, who devoted over 60 years of her life to nursing education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and within the UW System, culminating in the naming of the future home of the School of Nursing for her, passed away on July 16, 2013, at Agrace HospiceCare in Madison at the age of 92.

In a sea of data, Bioinformatics Resource Center rides genomic wave

July 2, 2013

In July 2012, the UW–Madison Bioinformatics Resource Center opened for business, providing one-stop shopping for genetic sequencing, genome assembly, analysis and a host of services to help UW–Madison faculty and others make sense of the sea of data generated by new technologies that have put the secrets of human, plant, animal and microbial genomes within tantalizing reach.

Whose ER response is better? Medical faculty, residents compete in ‘Sim Wars’

July 1, 2013

In one room of the simulated emergency department, Assistant Professor of Medicine Mary Westergaard futilely applies chest compressions to a child manikin. The script says the boy hasn’t had a pulse since he arrived in the Med Flight helicopter and that gray matter leaking from his brain indicates a severe head injury.

Waisman scientists model human disease in stem cells

June 26, 2013

Many scientists use animals to model human diseases. Mice can be obese or display symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Rats get Alzheimer's and diabetes. But animal models are seldom perfect, and so scientists are looking at a relatively new type of stem cell, called the induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS cell), that can be grown into specialized cells that become useful models for human disease.

Morgridge Institute taps biomedical innovator as chairman

June 21, 2013

The trustees of the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have named Fred Robertson as chairman, replacing outgoing chairman Ernie Micek, whose term as chair has ended and who will remain on the board.

Ned Kalin – revealing disorders of the brain

June 10, 2013

Dr. Ned Kalin, chair of the Department of Psychiatry, is an accomplished biological psychiatrist whose research focuses on anxiety. Through imaging studies and understanding the genetic and environmental components of mental illness, his lab is working toward discoveries that can form the basis of early interventions to treat children who are at risk of developing long-term anxiety and related psychiatric disorders.

UW service-learning project wins United Nations award

June 4, 2013

An award from the United Nations is honoring the work of Araceli Alonso, a senior lecturer in Gender and Women's Studies and a faculty associate at the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Stem cell transplant restores memory, learning in mice

April 21, 2013

For the first time, human embryonic stem cells have been transformed into nerve cells that helped mice regain the ability to learn and remember.

Expanded Science Expeditions opens doors to UW–Madison research

March 21, 2013

Ana Garic spends her days in a University of Wisconsin–Madison lab studying a public health problem with real impact in Wisconsin communities — which is why it feels so good to invite the public onto her turf for the campus’ annual Science Expeditions open house to be held April 5-7.

Counties’ healthiness ranked by UW institute

March 20, 2013

Ozaukee County residents are among the healthiest in Wisconsin, according to the 2013 County Health Rankings released today by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (UWPHI) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

Transplanted brain cells in monkeys light up personalized therapy

March 14, 2013

For the first time, scientists have transplanted neural cells derived from a monkey's skin into its brain and watched the cells develop into several types of mature brain cells, according to the authors of a new study in Cell Reports. After six months, the cells looked entirely normal, and were only detectable because they initially were tagged with a fluorescent protein.

School of Medicine and Public Health responds to MSC fire

February 28, 2013

The following message was sent to School of Medicine and Public Health students, faculty and staff in the wake of a fire on Feb. 28, 2012. No one was injured, but the building was damaged.

UW Students invited to shake it for charity this Friday

February 27, 2013

The fifth annual Wisconsin Dance Marathon this Friday will raise money for the patients and families of American Family Children’s Hospital.

Technique moves practical Alzheimer diagnosis one step closer to reality

February 11, 2013

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health are moving closer to a significant milepost in the battle against Alzheimer's disease: identifying the first signs of decline in the brain.