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Flu News (Status as of 2/8/2010) Limited Seasonal Flu Vaccine We currently have H1N1 vaccine available for all patients of any age, with or without underlying health conditions. However, we have very limited quantities of seasonal flu vaccine availab...
2/08/2010 | Flu Vaccine Status

Key Up for Kids Supports American Family Children's Hospital

Key Up for Kids Supports American Family Children

MADISON - More than 300 young piano students will use their talents to raise money for American Family Children's Hospital during the 17th annual Key Up For Kids, a piano-playing marathon, 9am until 5pm Saturday at Hilldale Mall. Participating studen...
2/08/2010 | Key Up for Kids Supports American Family Children's Hospital

Kids Helping Kids for American Family Children's Hospital

Kids Helping Kids for American Family Children

MADISON - Local Madison children now have the opportunity to help their peers through the Kids Helping Kids program at all Madison area Culver's restaurants. From now through March 31, children can turn in their Scoopie Tokens from Scoopie Kid's Meal...
2/08/2010 | Kids Helping Kids for American Family Children's Hospital

Mindfulness Meditation in the Treatment of Alcoholism

Mindfulness Meditation in the Treatment of Alcoholism

MADISON – Recovering alcoholics may benefit in the battle over the bottle if they practice mindfulness meditation. That's according to a Wisconsin physician-researcher who is one of the few in the country testing the possible connection between...
2/08/2010 | Mindfulness Meditation in the Treatment of Alcoholism

Researchers Receive Funding for Program on Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Researchers Receive Funding for Program on Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Madison - A multidisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin-Madison physiologists and cardiac specialists have launched a new program to study the mysteries of sudden cardiac arrest, thanks to a grant from the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institu...
2/05/2010 | Researchers Receive Funding for Program on Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Traveling Exhibition Honoring Women in Medicine Comes to UW-Madison

Traveling Exhibition Honoring Women in Medicine Comes to UW-Madison

Madison - "Changing the Face of Medicine," a national traveling exhibition honoring the lives and achievements of American women in medicine, past and present, will open in the UW-Madison Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) on Wednesday, February ...
2/01/2010 | Traveling Exhibition Honoring Women in Medicine Comes to UW-Madison

University of Wisconsin Research: Excitement About Excitability

University of Wisconsin Research: Excitement About Excitability

MADISON – A University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health team has made a discovery important to the millions of people who are on common medications for heart and neurological diseases. The discovery relates to ion channels, key...
2/01/2010 | University of Wisconsin Research: Excitement About Excitability

Non-Surgical Treatment Offers Relief from Acid Reflux

Non-Surgical Treatment Offers Relief from Acid Reflux

Dr. Jon Gould,UW Health surgeonMADISON -The condition's name is a mouthful - gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD. Its sufferers know it better as acid reflux, and they certainly know its symptoms: a burning or tightness in the chest and often th...
1/28/2010 | Non-Surgical Treatment Offers Relief from Acid Reflux

University of Wisconsin Researchers Explore Assessments of Consciousness

University of Wisconsin Researchers Explore Assessments of Consciousness

MADISON - The brains of people under anesthesia respond to stimuli as they do in the deepest part of sleep – lending credence to a developing theory of consciousness and suggesting a new method to assess loss of consciousness in conditions suc...
1/27/2010 | University of Wisconsin Researchers Explore Assessments of Consciousness

UW Hospital and Clinics Achieves Highest Rank for Information Technology

UW Hospital and Clinics Achieves Highest Rank for Information Technology

MADISON – University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is one of just three hospital systems nationwide to reach the highest level of achievement in the implementation of electronic health records. The hospital reached "Stage 7," the highest de...
1/27/2010 | UW Hospital and Clinics Achieves Highest Rank for Information Technology

UW Health and Go Red for Women Celebrate American Heart Month

UW Health and Go Red for Women Celebrate American Heart Month

MADISON - It's good to take care of your heart, year-round, but American Heart Month each February is the perfect time to get a double-dose of inspiration. While University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is proud to be one of the Top 100 hospitals...
1/26/2010 | UW Health and Go Red for Women Celebrate American Heart Month

Kiss it Goodbye: Drugs May Shut Down EBV-Induced Diseases

Kiss it Goodbye: Drugs May Shut Down EBV-Induced Diseases

MADISON - The same virus that causes relatively mild mononucleosis, the "kissing disease," can also cause severe mono as well as several potentially deadly kinds of cancer. Now researchers think they can kiss a stealthy form of Epstein-Barr virus (EB...
1/25/2010 | Kiss it Goodbye: Drugs May Shut Down EBV-Induced Diseases

UW Heart Stem Cell Study Among Top Ten Advances

UW Heart Stem Cell Study Among Top Ten Advances

Beating heart cells induced fromskin cellsMADISON - In 2009, a group of cardiovascular researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health proved that functional human heart muscle cells can be produced from genetically re...
1/22/2010 | UW Heart Stem Cell Study Among Top Ten Advances

Tips for Managing Winter Weight Gain

Tips for Managing Winter Weight Gain

MADISON - Winter weight gain doesn't have to be a fact of life-even with the body's chemical changes that can compel you to binge on carbs and "comfort foods." "There's quite a bit of science that shows levels of serotonin, which regulates appetite a...
1/21/2010 | Tips for Managing Winter Weight Gain

Wisconsin Partnership Program Funds Study on Obesity in Latino Youth

Wisconsin Partnership Program Funds Study on Obesity in Latino Youth

MADISON - From insulin resistance to urban planning policy, a new project funded by the Wisconsin Partnership Program will apply the widest possible lens to barriers to health and physical activity among Latino youth in Milwaukee. The findings could ...
1/20/2010 | Wisconsin Partnership Program Funds Study on Obesity in Latino Youth