Tag School of Medicine and Public Health
Symposium set on the ethics of health care reform
March 24, 2010"Reforming Health Care Ethically: Waste, Trade-offs and Rationing" will be held from 1 to 5:30pm April 8 at the Health Sciences Learning Center in lecture auditorium 1306. Seating is open and admission is free.
49-year-old Renaissance man wants to make surgery his new career
March 23, 2010What else can a former carpenter, landscaper, magazine editor, beekeeper and chicken farmer possibly do with his life?
UW-Madison study to track ‘silent strokes’
March 15, 2010A $1.57 million federal grant will allow University of Wisconsin–Madison neuroscientists to determine if they can use non-invasive scans to determine which patients are at highest risk for "silent strokes" that can lead to mental decline.
UW researchers develop new model for macular degeneration
March 12, 2010Exposing albino rats to moderately intense light has produced a new animal model for the most common cause of severe vision loss in humans.
Remarkable new images show a 4-D view of the heart
March 5, 2010What does the racing heart of someone in love - or on a fast treadmill - really look like? Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) now have pictures that are better than anything that's come before.
UW psychiatrist offers parents tips to help kids cope with agony of defeat
February 25, 2010Watch any of the 2010 Winter Olympics, and you'll see it-what legendary sportscaster Jim McKay famously called "the agony of defeat." But while Olympic athletes wrestle with sports disappointment for a brief period of time every four years, young athletes experience the same thing more frequently on a much smaller stage.
County health rankings expanded from Wisconsin to all 50 states
February 17, 2010Where we live matters to our health. A first-of-its-kind report by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation highlights this fact. The County Health Rankings, a collection of 50 reports - one per state - ranks all counties within each state on their overall health.
Induced neural stem cells: Not quite ready for prime time
February 15, 2010The great promise of induced pluripotent stem cells is that the all-purpose cells seem capable of performing all the same tricks as embryonic stem cells, but without the controversy.
Researchers receive $9.7 million grant for program on sudden cardiac arrest
February 5, 2010A multidisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin–Madison physiologists and cardiac specialists have launched a new program to study the mysteries of sudden cardiac arrest, thanks to a grant from the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute.
Med students make an impact on patients through research
February 4, 2010Medical students don't have to wait until they become practicing physicians to make a positive impact on the community. There are numerous opportunities for students in the MD Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to get involved, from community service programs to student organizations.
Exhibition honoring women in medicine comes to UW–Madison
February 3, 2010"Changing the Face of Medicine," a national traveling exhibition honoring the lives and achievements of American women in medicine, past and present, will open in the UW–Madison Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) on Wednesday, February 3.
UW-Madison study has implications for understanding ion channel defects
February 1, 2010A University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health team has made a discovery important to the millions of people who are on common medications for heart and neurological diseases.
Brain responses during anesthesia mimic those during natural deep sleep
January 27, 2010The 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.
Drugs may shut down several Epstein-Barr virus-induced diseases
January 25, 2010Using 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.