Aly Wolff’s dream lives on with new clinical trial
Aly Wolff died of neuroendocrine cancer on April 22, 2013, however her courageous battle continues. Today, three years later, a new clinical trial at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center has been approved and holds great promise in offering a new line of treatment for those with neuroendocrine tumors.
On Call: Catching Up With Three Neurosurgeons
What have graduates of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health been up to lately? Three medical school alumni who are neurological surgeons share their stories.
Josh Medow: Critical care for the brain
At Joshua Medow’s first job, in the Neurocritical Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital, he saves lives. His patients have endured strokes, car accidents and shootings.
Fiore, Sondel chosen for prestigious new grant program in cancer research
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has selected two UW-Madison faculty, Dr. Michael Fiore and Dr. Paul Sondel, as inaugural recipients of an Outstanding Investigator Award, which provides seven years of research support to investigators with outstanding records of productivity and achievement in cancer research.
Study: Cost, lack of insurance coverage are primary predictors of poor oral health
One in five adults in Wisconsin is not receiving needed oral-health care and an estimated 15 percent have cavities.
Study: Shift workers more likely to be overweight, have problems sleeping
The nine-to-five, Monday through Friday regimen most of us plan our lives around provides certain conveniences that shift work just doesn’t offer. But in addition, according to a study from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, shift work could also be bad for your health.
Handel, Bach were blinded by ’18th century quackery’
The beautiful strains of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” and Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” evoke a very different picture from the dark bond the two composers shared: Each was blinded by botched eye surgery at the hands of a flamboyant quack.