Patient overcomes metastatic prostate cancer thanks to clinical trial
UW Carbone Cancer Center patient Gary Davey struggled with metastatic prostate cancer until a clinical trial brought new hope....
19 February, 2024
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Eastpark Medical Center will begin welcoming patients in late October
Construction work is on schedule at UW Health Eastpark Medical Center, with a plan to begin seeing patients on Oct. 28....
09 February, 2024
New Health Link security offering available for principal investigators
A new Health Link security offering for principal investigators will grant additional research security similar to what is currently provided to research coordinators....
05 February, 2024
A clinical trial gives Scarlett hope
The pediatric cancer specialists at UW Health Kids American Family Children’s Hospital are part of a national research team that combines two scientific fields — genomics and immunotherapy — in search of cures for the most hard-to-treat cancers....
30 January, 2024
2023 health system highlights
To kick off the near year, UW Health is sharing key workforce, financial, care and community benefit outcomes and metrics for the health system....
05 January, 2024
Wisconsin woman participates in Alzheimer’s disease study after losing father
A few years after her father passed away from the disease, Marilyn Krause enrolled in the AHEAD clinical trial at UW Health....
03 January, 2024
UW clinical trial tests new way to treat glioblastoma
A clinical trial now open at UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center uses a patient’s dying tumor cells to try to teach their immune system to find and destroy cancer cells following surgery for a type of brain cancer called glioblastoma....
21 December, 2023
UW Health Transplant Center celebrates first pediatric heart transplant
In the span of two months, Sezar went from playing soccer with his siblings to becoming the first patient to receive a transplant through the pediatric heart transplant program at the UW Health Transplant Center....
20 December, 2023
Mineral coatings could enable shelf-stable mRNA therapies
A protective mineral coating identified by University of Wisconsin–Madison biomedical engineering researchers could allow powerful messenger RNA therapeutics like COVID-19 vaccines to be stored at room temperature, making them more accessible to lower-resourced communities across the world....
15 December, 2023
Clinical trial recruitment now available on MyChart
Patients at UW Health could now receive messages directly in MyChart inviting them to participate in health research. This year, patients who have access to their MyChart accounts might have noticed a new tab on their profile labeled “Research,” according to Dr. Mike Semanik, physician...
15 December, 2023