Study shows sports specialization may lead to more lower extremity injuries
High school athletes who specialized in a single sport experienced more lower-extremity injuries than athletes who participated in a variety of sports throughout the year, according to a new study presented yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.
Investigators are tracking America’s deadliest killer: Tobacco addiction
Mike Eheler didn’t want to die and leave his wife and four kids without him. Like most smokers, he became addicted as a kid. He had smoked for 23 years, his grandmother had died from lung cancer, and now he could feel the toll on his health — and on his ability to support his family in the way he’d dreamed. It was slipping away, one $7 pack of carcinogens at a time.
New line of population health research takes guts
“You know, if you’re going to poop anyway, you might as well get paid for it!”
Carbone Cancer Center members recognized as Vilas Professors
Three UW Carbone Cancer Center members recently earned Vilas Professorships.
New method of viral maintenance in cancer cells identified in UW study
A new method for how viruses ensure their maintenance in dividing cells has been identified by researchers at the University of Wisconsin McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and Carbone Cancer Center.
Study links insurance coverage to higher rates of colorectal cancer screenings
As the nation debates whether and how health insurance should be reformed, researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health determined that people with a certain type of insurance policy were more likely to be screened for colorectal cancer.
Poor sleep linked to multiple brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease
An international team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison found that people who experienced poor sleep in late midlife also had brain characteristics that point to an increased risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease.
Viral infection found to increase therapeutic resistance of glioblastoma cells
A common human virus, cytomegalovirus (CMV), can convert glioblastoma (GBM) brain cancer cells into cancer stem cells with higher therapeutic resistance, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center researchers.
Remembering Patricia Keely: Scientist, mentor, friend and inspiration
It would be easy to simply say Dr. Patti Keely was a world-class, nationally recognized breast cancer researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. And, that would be correct – but only part of the picture.
Plan tests using Tai Chi to help seniors with balance
As calming music plays in the background, 11 older women listen as physical therapist Diane Brose enters a warm-up for a discipline known as Tai Chi Fundamentals: “Feel your feet. Feel the four corners of your feet. Your knees are soft, your tailbone is heavy. Don’t worry about yesterday, tomorrow will take care of itself. Now, we’re here, and it’s safe.”
Study sheds light on function of protein associated with high-risk breast cancers
The function of a protein associated with breast cancer development and metastasis is now better understood, based on a new study by University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) researchers.
UW, GE Healthcare team up to improve medical imaging, patient outcomes
The first time John Wiley passed out, in 2013, he fell flat on his face in a welding shop. He figured he’d tripped on the gas hoses, but his doctor disagreed: “You were unconscious before you hit the ground. Otherwise, you would have put your hands out for protection.”