UW Health gets high honors for sustainability efforts
UW Health recently earned seven national awards from Practice Greenhealth, a nonprofit organization focused on making the health care industry more sustainable....
28 June, 2024
Clinical Trials
FDA Guidance Provides New Details on Diversity Action Plans Required for Certain Clinical Studies
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a draft guidance, “Diversity Action Plans to Improve Enrollment of Participants from Underrepresented Populations in Clinical Studies,” to assist medical product sponsors in submitting Diversity Action Plans to support certain clinical studies....
26 June, 2024
How to Print a Brain
A team of UW–Madison scientists has developed the first 3D-printed brain tissue that can grow and function like typical brain tissue....
25 June, 2024
Spotlight on the Clinical Research Associate Career Pathway and Resources
Standing on the outside of a profession and looking in is no easy thing. Without access to “insider’s knowledge” about how to pursue a career path in which you are interested, how do you even know in which direction to take the first step?...
24 June, 2024
Older Women Are Different Than Older Men. Their Health Is Woefully Understudied.
Medical research has shortchanged women for decades. This is particularly true of older women, leaving physicians without critically important information about how to best manage their health....
18 June, 2024
Study: Women underrepresented in clinical trials of medical devices
Women are underrepresented in clinical trials of medical devices and are significantly underrepresented in clinical trials evaluating cardiovascular devices compared with devices in other specialties, according to a systematic review published in JAMA Internal Medicine....
17 June, 2024
How an Innovative Statistical Methodology Enables More Patient-Centric Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are critical for assessing new treatments in terms of their potential benefits for patients’ health and for their likelihood of financial success if marketed. Yet, the traditional approach focusing on a single primary endpoint may mean lengthy trials that often fail to capture...
13 June, 2024
Improving Cardiovascular Research for Transgender and Gender Diverse Populations
Transgender and gender diverse (TGGD) individuals face an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). There is an unmet need to identify the root causes of CVD health disparities in this population....
13 June, 2024
The Future is Now: Clinical Trials Must Keep Up in the Age of Precision Medicine
Precision medicine brings about transformational advances in how we treat and prevent disease. As our understanding of biology progresses, we advance our ability to precisely target therapies to individuals with specific variants of broad diseases....
13 June, 2024
Team Spotlight: Tamara Kempken Mehring
Tamara Kempken Mehring discusses her career path and current role as Clinical Nurse Specialist within the UW Clinical Research Unit (CRU)....
12 June, 2024