The Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Hospital announced Wednesday the public launch of a wide-ranging Hope to Health Campaign. The aim is to raise $225 million by December 2020 to "drive health innovation" in Milwaukee and across the state. Since fundraising began in 2015, the campaign...
The Voyage study will enroll more than 150,000 people that order the Cologuard colon cancer test and track them for seven years, gathering data on clinical outcomes for this population. A release shows the study is one of the largest of its kind ever conducted. Colon...
Madison West High School freshman Erin Tormey leaned over and looked closely through the otoscope, seeing gray in the ear of University of Wisconsin-Madison physician assistant student Violet Weibel. That was a good sign, Weibel and her classmate Kayla Miller explained — red or pink can mean...
Kaiser Family Foundation pollster Ashley Kirzinger said health care is “among the top issues” voters want to hear about heading into the 2020 election. But she said that voters would make choices in both the presidential election and in down-ballot races “almost entirely on their perceptions...
UW-Eau Claire’s rural nursing specialist says the promise of widespread broadband internet and the technology it enables goes well beyond remote diagnosis. “Through the connectivity with broadband, we can address issues around what we call the social determinants of health,” said Pam Guthman, a clinical assistant...
Dr. Lynn D’Andrea knew something was amiss when three teenagers with similar mysterious, dangerous lung injuries came into the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin one after another, gasping for air. As the only pulmonologist on duty that Fourth of July holiday week, D’Andrea noticed those alarming cases...
The Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer (MACC) Fund announced today it will give $25 million, its largest-ever pledge, to advance medical discoveries at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin related to pediatric cancer and blood disorders. The investment is aimed at accelerating the development of therapies through the...
Intellivisit, the Wisconsin company that developed an artificial intelligence-powered smartphone app that analyzes answers from a survey and descriptions of symptoms to provide users a preliminary diagnosis, is trying to raise $2.49 million from investors, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and...
Epilepsy devastates the nervous system by triggering changes in different anatomical regions and functional processes across the entire brain. These changes are collectively implicated in the degradation of cognition, but their emergence and progression are not easily traced. Through a new four-year, $700,000 grant from the...
Ascension Wisconsin plans to build a new 33,000-square-foot health center and small-scale inpatient hospital in Menomonee Falls. The two-story health center is planned for a portion of the former von Schledorn Auto Group site at N88 W14167 Main St. The first floor of the building will house a...