The NIH-funded study involved Black and Hispanic children at higher risk for asthma attacks.
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"This is a real problem that we do have to wrestle with," said the deputy director for extramural research at the National Institutes of Health.
"Paul is at the forefront of everything from the Big Lie conspiracy to theories behind the supposed orchestration of the coronavirus pandemic."
Seven research projects at UW-Madison are approved to use fetal tissue, including work focused on Down syndrome, infectious diseases and visual impairments.
The move boosts efforts to beat back an outbreak so dire that the nation is regularly recording more than 3,000 deaths a day. Plus, a guide to vaccines and who's getting them.
Atrial fibrillation can cause strokes, but studies have not found fish oil, vitamin D or other supplements to be effective.
PETA said one of its investigators worked undercover at the university's Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.
The four recent incidents involve injuries to five primates that escaped their enclosures or fought with other primates.
Global pandemics like coronavirus are a cause of great concern among public health professionals in this age of worldwide travel, when the newest mutant virus is just a jet stream away from spreading widely.
Women who said they used permanent hair dye in the year before enrolling in a study were 9% more likely to develop breast cancer compared to women who did not.
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute and Medical College of Wisconsin have collectively been awarded $5.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to enroll patients in a nationwide precision medicine initiative.
President Donald Trump’s federal budget proposal would precipitously cut our country’s annual investment in research. It would slash $5.8 bill…
Health and Human Services, facing a $12.6 billion cut, or 16.2 percent. The plan would cut $5.8 billion from the nearly $32 billion National Institutes of Health, the nation's premier medical research agency, bringing its total to $25.9 billion. It's not clear what research on diseases or disorders would lose the most money, although the budget plan specifically calls for elimination of a division that focuses on global health. Already, the NIH's budget hasn't kept pace with inflation over the last decade, making it dramatically harder for scientists around the country to win money for research projects into potential new treatments or better understanding of disease.
UW-Madison officials say cuts in Trump's budget could affect hundreds of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of research.
FluGen says its RedeeFlu vaccine is expected to protect patients against different versions of the seasonal illness.
A small Madison company that's taking an entrepreneurial approach to boosting health care access has received a major grant from one of the National Institutes of Health.
Metabolism of children with autism spectrum disorder will be studied; also, stem cell technology will be used to screen products for consumer product companies.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan's bill to fund grants for young scientists is precisely what we need to keep the U.S. on top in scientific research.
Throughout our history, the federal government has been one of the country's most productive investors — in our economy, in research and development, and in the future.
Critical care is a vital part of our health care system. Our bill calls for assessing the system and then improving it.
Drugs that seem safe in animal studies are sometimes found to be harmful in humans.
As a clear liquid flowed into her arm last week, Nancy Rathke became the first person in Wisconsin to try a new approach to fighting Alzheimer…
Eric Sandgren of UW-Madison’s Research Animal Resources Center says more transparency over animal care errors would be “misused.”
The UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has been given it's largest grant ever, a $70 million, seven-year grant to continue research on asthma in inner-city children.
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Studies on how sleep affects cognitive functions in humans and animals could see major advances, thanks to a $7.7 million grant from the Natio…