When drugs fail, epilepsy patients turn to this UW cooking class to learn how to curtail seizures by cutting carbs.
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Improv techniques help medical professionals learn creativity and spontaneity.
Should a Chinese couple have one baby? Two? More? UW obstetrician Fuxian Yi and his homeland are at odds over children.
UW professor Tony Goldberg is on a life-saving mission: identify unknown pathogens before they jump to a new host and cause disease in other animals — and humans.
Scientists weren’t the only faculty members to assist the government — historians, geologists, and others pitched in, too.
For 80 years, the Wisconsin Alumni Association has honored exceptional alumni with Distinguished Alumni Awards. Early recipients include actor Fredric March ’20 of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde fame and Helen C. White PhD’24, the beloved English professor whose name now graces College Library. More recently, alumni such as Earth…
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Electronic cigarettes can’t be sold or marketed as smoking cessation aids, but many smokers see so-called vaping as a desirable way to quit.
The problem is, many of them get “stuck” using both this option and traditional cigarettes, says Doug Jorenby MS’86, PhD’91,…
Feeling overwhelmed? UW research shows one simple act can make a difference.
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Growing up on a dairy farm in Viroqua, Wisconsin, Melanie Buhr-Lawler ’00 heard her dad’s tractors and other loud equipment every day. Now, as a clinical associate professor of audiology at UW–Madison,…
UW scientists hope that quickly sharing results will generate answers about the virus.
Burnout and depression are common among medical students, but a UW course teaches them tools to stay healthy, along with their patients.
When her mother died of Huntington’s, Shana Martin Verstegen ’02 didn't want to know if she’d get it, too — until deciding to become a mom herself.
People of color are more likely to get Alzheimer’s disease. The children of former Badger football star Lou Holland ’65 are among those that UW researchers are studying to try to learn why.
Doctors in training at the UW write down patients' memories — along with their symptoms — in a VA hospital program that documents the lives of military veterans.
Two UW alumni are working closely with African tribal warriors, teaching them how to protect — rather than kill — the majestic lions that roam their lands.
For veterans who feel adrift upon returning home, Jake Wood ’05 has a suggestion: come along with us.
UW–Madison has resources to help students struggling with substance abuse — but advocates hope to do much more.
UW scientists make encouraging progress toward a vaccine.
A UW service makes sure rare and wonderful species are in good hands.
An unexpected process may lead to an earlier diagnosis for sick babies.
UW Professor William Bleckwenn 1917, who first used sodium amytal to treat people with schizophrenia, had little idea that his pioneering work would lead to what is popularly known as truth serum.
Ultrasounds create a powerful connection for dads-to-be.
The campus has an unquenchable appetite for words made up from the initials of other words.
Wherever she's gone in life, the medically underserved have always found Jenny Amani MD'09.
As scientists unravel the mysteries of human DNA, genetic counselors stand ready to interpret what it all means.