Health systems are using AI. UW Health wants to help them do it ethically.
UW Health, Epic Systems led AI roundtable this summer to help establish guardrails for the technology....
08 August, 2024
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Picturing an end to Alzheimer’s
After decades of disappointments, a potential breakthrough treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is sparking a new symptom in researchers, clinicians, caregivers and families: hope....
07 August, 2024
Noninvasive ventilation better for patients
Recently published results from a clinical trial showed that for critically ill adults needing tracheal intubation for emergency airway support, the method health care providers choose to use for providing supplemental oxygen before the intubation procedure affects the patient’s risk of hypoxemia, or potentially life-threatening...
07 August, 2024
Pathbreaking cystic fibrosis research initiated in Wisconsin 40 years ago changed the course of diagnosis and treatment of children around the world
Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary condition, occurring in approximately one in 4,000 births. It causes normally slippery fluids in lungs and digestive system organs to become thick and sticky, resulting in lung and digestive impairment, risk of severe lung infections, malnutrition, and death....
06 August, 2024
UW Health announces changes to onsite phlebotomy training
Effective August 1, UW Health Clinical Laboratories will be making changes to the on-site phlebotomy training option....
26 July, 2024
Murtaza named director of Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine
Dr. Muhammed Murtaza has become the next director of the Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health....
17 July, 2024
Madison College, MATC, UW bolster accessibility of biohealth career pathways
Madison College is leading one of Wisconsin’s six Tech Hub projects in partnership with Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) and the Universities of Wisconsin (UW), with support from the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin (WDBSCW) and Employ Milwaukee Inc....
10 July, 2024
Wisconsin got $49M to invest in personalized medicine. What does that mean?
Now, a coalition of biohealth businesses, colleges and economic development agencies is getting $49 million in federal funds to solve those problems and more....
05 July, 2024
Serendipity reveals new method to fight cancer with T cells
A promising therapy that treats blood cancers by harnessing the power of the immune system to target and destroy cancer cells could now treat solid tumors more efficiently....
02 July, 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