While electronic medical records clearly have a long list of benefits—they’re legible, portable, shareable and can contain real-time alerts for physicians—the field is still growing and evolving, and some challenges have emerged along the way....
Thanks to leadership from Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD, professor, Infectious Disease, and colleagues, the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital will join a national network of VA medical centers dedicated to strengthening clinical research at those centers....
Small, unique antibody-like proteins known as VNARs — derived from the immune systems of sharks — can prevent the virus that causes COVID-19, its variants, and related coronaviruses from infecting human cells, according to a new study....
By Kathryn Larson, Spectrum News UW Health celebrates two decades of the world’s largest family history study one participant shares her deep connection to the important project. "It was very hard to watch her kind of wither away," daughter Kathy Schmitt said about seeing her mother, Dorothy,...
Two miles down Park Street from the UW–Madison campus are the facilities of the UW South Madison Partnership — an effort to overcome that geographic distance to draw the university and the neighborhood closer through respectful, equal collaboration....
Damage to a part of the brain that regulates hyperactivity can contribute to both memory problems and seizures in the most common form of epilepsy, according to research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
UW–Madison With more than 1,700 research participants and 20 years of data, the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) is now the largest, and among the longest-running, family history studies of Alzheimer’s disease in the world. “I’m especially grateful to our research team, which includes our remarkable...
By Kyle Jones, Channel3000.com 20 years ago, the UW School of Medicine and Public Health launched its landmark Alzheimer’s Prevention study. The Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention study started with just one person but has since grown to over 1,700 participants, the largest family history study of...
Grants of $1 million each, over five years, support community-academic partnerships and their initiatives to improve health and advance health equity by addressing the social determinants that influence health and well-being as well as the systems, structures and policies that shape these determinants and hold...
Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD, has been named the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health's inaugural associate dean for clinical trials and the research director of the new Wisconsin Medicine Institute for Clinical Trials, a joint venture between the school and UW Health. UW–Madison...
