Stories tagged: "UW Health"
To borrow a line from Disney's Frozen, "for the first time in forever" every moment of 2022 was not defined by COVID. Instead, a large chunk of the year's health headlines was devoted to the overturning of reproductive options and its impact on Wisconsin women. But not all headlines were bad. Here are several "good news" standouts.
How safe is your hospital? A new report graded 3,000 US Hospitals on how well they protect patients from medical errors, accidents, injuries, and infections. Find out how Wisconsin's scored.
At a time when overall cancer survival rates are rising and patient outcomes are improving, pancreatic cancer remains a stubborn outlier. Wisconsin doctors and researchers are working to change that.
Ovarian cancer, often called the ‘silent killer,’ is the deadliest form of gynecological cancer. That could soon change.
For women who suspect they have breast cancer, the only way to know for sure is through an invasive, surgical biopsy. But that could soon become a thing of the past.
This community has been hit hard by the virus. It is also much less likely to trust medical research and the vaccines produced by research.
Professionals cite lack of normal routine, lack of social interactions as contributing factors.