09 Apr The evolution of a clinical research coordinator
Like many people in this industry, Briana White admits that her career in clinical research was more accidental than planned....
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08 Apr Clinical trials at Eastpark Medical Center
Policies, procedures, and resources for study teams conducting clinical trials at UW Health's Eastpark Medical Center....
08 Apr UW–Madison graduate programs ranked highly by U.S. News
University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate programs are once again ranked among the nation’s best in a wide variety of fields and specialties, in the 2025 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”...
07 Apr AI screening tool helps refer patients for opioid use disorder treatment
An artificial intelligence-driven screening tool developed by a research team at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health successfully identified hospitalized adults at risk for opioid use disorder and recommended referral to inpatient addiction specialists....
04 Apr Early phase clinical trials provide cutting-edge treatment options to cancer patients
Early phase clinical trials play a crucial role in developing new cancer treatments, creating the bridge that takes promising lab discoveries into human study....
03 Apr What does racial color-blindness mean for clinical trial participation?
The adoption of racial color-blindness by clinical researchers could be problematic for a number of reasons....
25 Mar Could an arthritis drug unlock lasting relief from epilepsy and seizures? UW–Madison researchers see promising results in mice.
A drug typically prescribed for arthritis halts brain-damaging seizures in mice that have a condition like epilepsy, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
20 Mar COVID-19 five years later: The impact on drug discovery
COVID-19 not only advanced scientific boundaries, but also transformed research methodologies and accelerated adaptive clinical trial design....
20 Mar Blood test for ovarian cancer misses some Black and Native American patients, study finds
So far, it’s unknown why the test doesn’t perform uniformly across groups. The researchers suspect it has something to do with a harmless genetic variation that is more common in people of African, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and West Indian descent....
18 Mar Give patients a deadline to return fecal test for CRC screening, study suggests
The simple addition of a deadline to a mailed invitation for fecal immunochemical test (FIT) colorectal cancer (CRC) screening resulted in improved return rates, the randomized TEMPO trial showed....