Lupus significantly and disproportionately impacts Black, Hispanic and Asian patients, but these populations are underrepresented in clinical trials for the disease....
A growing study in Wisconsin is focused on understanding Alzheimer’s disease and its impact on the African American community. ...
To kick off the near year, UW Health is sharing key workforce, financial, care and community benefit outcomes and metrics for the health system....
A few years after her father passed away from the disease, Marilyn Krause enrolled in the AHEAD clinical trial at UW Health....
Wisconsin’s strength in biohealth extends well beyond the laboratories where researchers are working to develop new drugs and therapies....
Technology developed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to grow “rosettes” of brain and spinal tissue gives scientists new ways to study the growing human brain, including a recent study of how genetic mutations linked to autism affect early stages of human brain development....
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...
Elizabeth Hagerman, chief innovation officer at UW Health and executive director of the Isthmus Project, discusses her background and the Isthmus Project's efforts to help UW- and UW Health-affiliated entrepreneurs take healthcare innovations through the commercialization process....
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have identified a protein key to the development of a type of brain cell believed to play a role in disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and used the discovery to grow the neurons from stem cells for the...
The effectiveness of mRNA vaccines in reducing disease severity and hospitalization from COVID-19 is well established. Now, new research from the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine advances our understanding of how these vaccines protect the lungs following breakthrough infections from emerging variants of...
