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Mainstay clerk celebrates 50 years of reliability at UW Hospital

September 9, 2014

The Neurosciences ICU on the fourth floor of the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is normally a hushed and darkened spot. It’s kept that way for the comfort of patients, who have recently survived brain surgery, stroke or some manner of head trauma. But on a Thursday in May, there was an uncharacteristic party going in the employee break room. It was a celebration of health unit clerk Sharon Dickey’s 50th anniversary at the hospital. Read More

UW Hospital and Clinics named state’s top hospital by U.S. News & World Report

July 15, 2014

For the third year in a row, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics has been named the best hospital in Wisconsin. Read More

New tumor-targeting agent images and treats variety of cancers

June 11, 2014

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) report that a new class of tumor-targeting agents can seek out and find dozens of solid tumors, even illuminating brain cancer stem cells that resist current treatments. Read More

Long lost WWII soldier returned to family with help of UW–Madison scientists

June 10, 2014

No longer missing, Pfc. Lawrence S. Gordon is finally on his way home. Read More

Dane County African-Americans have high cancer rates

May 8, 2014

African Americans in Dane County were 30 percent more likely than whites to be diagnosed with cancer. Read More

Spring cleaning your life: four ways to make room for what matters most

May 8, 2014

While you’re toiling away these first few beautiful days of spring reorganizing your garage, cleaning out your basement, or simply tossing all that superfluous “stuff” you’ve accumulated over the last year, you might want to consider applying that same industrious ambition to other parts of your life as well. Read More

Wisconsin Dance Marathon: Standing for those who can’t

March 5, 2014

University of Wisconsin students and members of the Madison community will put on their dancing shoes on Mar. 8 to raise money for American Family Children's Hospital. Read More

Thriving, rather than surviving, is key to winning winter

February 13, 2014

After months of cold temperatures, cloudy days and snow, it’s no wonder that many of us think bears have the right idea during the winter. Read More

Junior Cal Melberg becomes ‘the match’

February 12, 2014

After attending a Be the Match bone marrow donor registration event on campus last May, UW–Madison junior Cal Melberg knew his chances of ever being matched were slim. Then, in September, he got the call. Read More

Emeritus professor, physician and social activist Jeffrey Patterson dies

January 25, 2014

Dr. Jeffrey Patterson, a family medicine physician, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and an activist for health and environmental causes, died Jan. 23. Read More

UW Health launches new program designed to improve patient experience and surgical outcomes

January 2, 2014

UW Health patients getting total joint-replacement surgery now have access to a new online support tool designed to take them through treatment, rehabilitation and recovery. Read More

UW Hospital and Clinics honored for reducing infection

November 26, 2013

University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics was recognized for taking a major step forward in reducing health care-associated infection, as it received the 2013 Partnership in Prevention Award. Read More

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. Read More

UW Hospital and Clinics repeats as state’s top hospital

July 17, 2013

U.S. News & World Report magazine has named University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics the top hospital in Wisconsin for the second year in a row - and among the nation's top 50 hospitals in nine medical specialties, an increase of two over last year. Read More

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. Read More

UW Carbone Cancer Rearchers Named to Pediatric Cancer Dream Team

April 8, 2013

Dr. Paul Sondel Madison, Wisconsin — A “dream team” of pediatric cancer researchers at the UW Carbone Cancer Center is among scientists at seven… Read More

UW Health reaches out to Ethiopian hospital

March 5, 2013

A frilly pink dress made its way from Bay View, near Milwaukee, to Addis Ababa just in time for a very sick Ethiopian toddler, dressed as a fairy princess, to celebrate Christmas in the hospital. The story of the pink princess dress is one about the University of Wisconsin’s reach across the state, and around the globe. Read More

UW Health selected as Accountable Care Organization in Medicare

January 10, 2013

UW Health has been selected as one of 106 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in Medicare, ensuring as many as 4 million Medicare beneficiaries across the United States now have access to high-quality, coordinated care, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today. Read More