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Smallest Tools Could Give Biggest Results in Bone Repair

Smallest Tools Could Give Biggest Results in Bone Repair

Madison, Wisconsin - When William Murphy works with some of the most powerful tools in biology, he thinks about making tools that can fit together. These constructions sound a bit like socket wrenches, which can be assembled to turn a half-inch nut i...
2/07/2012 | Smallest Tools Could Give Biggest Results in Bone Repair

Study Shows Calories Drive Earlier Puberty

Study Shows Calories Drive Earlier Puberty

Madison, Wisconsin - Environmental pollutants, eating habits, lack of exercise and genetic traits have all been raised as possible causes of earlier puberty onset in girls in recent years. Now we may now know why: It's the calories, as reported ...
2/07/2012 | Study Shows Calories Drive Earlier Puberty

Coin Batteries Hidden Danger to Kids

Coin Batteries Hidden Danger to Kids

Madison, Wisconsin - If you’re planning to serenade your sweetheart with a musical Valentine’s card, be careful: musical greeting cards are a surprising source of danger for children. Kids may swallow the coin, or button, battery ins...
2/02/2012 | Coin Batteries Hidden Danger to Kids

Key Up for Kids Set for February 11

Key Up for Kids Set for February 11

MADISON - More than 300 piano students will use their talents to raise money for American Family Children's Hospital during the 20th annual Key Up For Kids, a piano-playing marathon, from 9am until 5pm Saturday, Feb. 11 at Barnes and Noble near ...
2/02/2012 | Key Up for Kids Set for February 11

National Expert Carla Pugh to Lead UW Health Clinical Simulation Program

National Expert Carla Pugh to Lead UW Health Clinical Simulation Program

Madison, Wisconsin - Dr. Carla Pugh, a nationally recognized leader in surgical education, has been named to lead UW Health's new Clinical Simulation Program. Pugh, a surgeon who currently heads the Center for Advanced Surgical Education at Nort...
2/02/2012 | National Expert Carla Pugh to Lead UW Health Clinical Simulation Program

Using the Compassionate Brain to Predict What Occurs in Real Life

Using the Compassionate Brain to Predict What Occurs in Real Life

Madison, Wisconsin - University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are launching a new series of studies to understand how laboratory measures of virtuous qualities such as compassion relate to their behavior in the real world. Dr. Richard J. Davi...
2/01/2012 | Using the Compassionate Brain to Predict What Occurs in Real Life

Cycle for Sight Raises Funds for Vision Research

Cycle for Sight Raises Funds for Vision Research

If you pedal a bike for an hour, and don't get anywhere, are you making progress? Yes, if you're one of the dozens of University of Wisconsin-Madison students, staff and community members who will be pedaling furiously to raise money for vision ...
1/31/2012 | Cycle for Sight Raises Funds for Vision Research

The Waisman Center: Decades Later, What Would Harry Think?

The Waisman Center: Decades Later, What Would Harry Think?

Last fall, the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison bid successfully for the same National Institutes of Health core grant that the late Harry Waisman first won 45 years ago. The award continues the legacy of the UW-Madison pedi...
1/31/2012 | The Waisman Center: Decades Later, What Would Harry Think?

Share Your Memories of Paul Bertics

Share Your Memories of Paul Bertics

Madison, Wisconsin - The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health was stunned and profoundly saddened to lose faculty member Paul J. Bertics on Thursday, December 22, 2011. He died unexpectedly at his home in Madison. The sch...
1/30/2012 | Share Your Memories of Paul Bertics

UW Health Doctor Named to Panel to Transform Health Care

UW Health Doctor Named to Panel to Transform Health Care

Madison, Wisconsin - Dr. Jonathan Jaffery, associate professor of medicine at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, is one of 73 individuals from 27 states and the District of Columbia participating in the Innovation Advi...
1/30/2012 | UW Health Doctor Named to Panel to Transform Health Care

 

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