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Grateful UW Health Patient Helps Neurosurgery Research
UW Health neurosurgeons in Madison, Wisconsin, offer comprehensive consultation, evaluation and treatment of a variety of neurological and spinal disorders in adults and children. Jason Guttenberg's Story Learn about how a trip to the UW He...
4/15/2013 | Grateful UW Health Patient Helps Neurosurgery Research
Spine Surgery Allows Mom to Return to Her Active Life
UW Health neurosurgeons in Madison, Wisconsin, offer comprehensive consultation, evaluation and treatment of a variety of neurological and spinal disorders in adults and children. Jenny Janzen's Story Suffering from a change in gait and ext...
1/17/2013 | Spine Surgery Allows Mom to Return to Her Active Life
Listening to the Patient: Angie Mayr's Story
UW Health neurosurgeons in Madison, Wisconsin, offer comprehensive consultation, evaluation and treatment of a variety of neurological and spinal disorders in adults and children. Angie Mayr's Story Angie Mayr quit smoking 26 years ago and ...
7/26/2012 | Listening to the Patient: Angie Mayr's Story
UW Health Neurosurgery Team Returns Man to Farm After Cow Attack
After being attacked by a massive Black Angus cow, farmer David Ferwerda's life was saved by his dog, Hannah, and the UW Health neurosurgery team, which removed the blood clot that had formed on David's brain.
5/04/2012 | UW Health Neurosurgery Team Returns Man to Farm After Cow Attack
UW Health/Watertown Teamwork Saves Life with Emergency Brain Surgery
Shauna could never have known her recurrent headaches were symptoms of a growing tumor in her brain. Quick work and teamwork by Watertown Regional physician Kathleen Hargarten and UW Health's neurosurgery team organized emergency brain surgery and sa...
1/07/2011 | UW Health/Watertown Teamwork Saves Life with Emergency Brain Surgery
Overcoming Tourette's: Jonah's Story
Jonah Hinds was a typical 7-year-old boy, until suddenly, he began having fits that looked like seizures. One specialist suggested he might be faking, but his father knew it was something more. His pediatrician diagnosed him with a movement disorder ...
9/11/2010 | Overcoming Tourette's: Jonah's Story
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UW Hospital Named One of Nation's First Certified Comprehensive Stroke Centers
Madison, Wisconsin – University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics joins an elite group as one of the first hospitals in the country to receive Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification from The Joint Commission and the American Heart Associatio...
12/05/2012 | UW Hospital Named One of Nation's First Certified Comprehensive Stroke Centers
UW Health Neurosurgeon Featured on 'Forward Motion'
Madison, Wisconsin - A patient and his family inspired Dr. Joshua Medow, a UW Health neurosurgeon and biomedical engineer, to create the "Holy Grail" of brain monitoring. Medow was a resident at University of Wisconsin Hospital when he saw yet a...
11/15/2012 | UW Health Neurosurgeon Featured on 'Forward Motion'
Daniel Resnick Named President-Elect of Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Dr. Daniel Resnick, professor and vice chair of neurological surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, was officially named the president elect of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). The Congress ...
10/26/2012 | Daniel Resnick Named President-Elect of Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Two Faculty Featured on Big Ten Network's 'Forward Motion'
Madison, Wisconsin - Two faculty from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health were featured on "Forward Motion," a 30-minute news magazine spotlighting the inspiration behind some of UW-Madison's most innovative research and ...
10/23/2012 | Two Faculty Featured on Big Ten Network's 'Forward Motion'
Wisconsin Team Reveals Way to Treat Drug-resistant Brain Tumor Cells
New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains why the incurable brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is highly resistant to current chemotherapies. The study, from the brain-tumor research lab of Dr. John Kuo, assistant ...
6/01/2012 | Wisconsin Team Reveals Way to Treat Drug-resistant Brain Tumor Cells
Experiments by Manucher Javid, Paul Settlage Made Modern Neurosurgery Possible
Madison, Wisconsin - Neurosurgeons operating on the brain 50 years ago often confronted a serious problem: "fungus cerebri," a condition in which pressure forces the brain to mushroom out of a hole in the skull. But two University of Wisco...
5/09/2012 | Experiments by Manucher Javid, Paul Settlage Made Modern Neurosurgery Possible
