Epic rolling out personalized care data tool this summer
Epic is rolling out a new personalized care data tool, which aims to give doctors crucial patient insights. ...
15 May, 2024
Clinical Trials
I Have a Rare Disease. Here’s Why I Chose to Do a Clinical Trial as a Black Woman
Insist on proper care, ask critical questions about treatments, and push firmly but respectfully for my doctors to truly listen to me as the expert on my own condition. No one understands what a patient is going through better than the patient themselves....
15 May, 2024
More Patients Participate in Cancer Treatment Trials Than Previously Estimated
Participation in cancer treatment clinical trials was higher than historical estimates, according to a national sample of data from the Commission on Cancer....
13 May, 2024
The Heart of Healthcare Innovation Keeps Beating
Every year we offer seed grants to support budding research projects -- something related to primary care or hospital medicine -- helping to foster collaborations and new ways of thinking about the care we provide....
13 May, 2024
Colorectal cancer is increasing among young people. It’s time to boost research on it
The increasing number of diagnoses among young people (those 49 and under) is a worrisome trend that isn’t understood by researchers. Young people diagnosed with colorectal cancer often have an advanced stage of the disease, posing significant challenges for effective treatment. ...
10 May, 2024
Wisconsin man celebrates 5 years cancer-free after immunotherapy treatment
Bart Bortz, of Sun Prairie, Wis., defied the odds in his battle against cancer, thanks to groundbreaking research and treatment at UW Health’s Carbone Cancer Center....
10 May, 2024
UW Health earns national LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader designation
UW Health has again received the LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader designation from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation....
07 May, 2024
Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska named UW–Madison vice chancellor for research
Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska will serve as the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s vice chancellor for research. Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin named Brzezinska, a longtime Ohio State University engineering professor and GPS researcher, to the post today....
07 May, 2024
UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center research shines on global stage
Innovation does not happen in a vacuum—the biggest breakthroughs in cancer treatment and prevention happen because of teamwork across disciplines and between multiple academic centers and research institutions....
01 May, 2024
An electrifying discovery may help doctors deliver more effective gene therapies
In an effort to improve delivery of costly medical treatments, a team of researchers in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has developed a stimulating method that could make the human body more receptive to certain gene therapies....
30 April, 2024