Medical College of Wisconsin News

Three-stage graduated licensing for teens and other new drivers prevents injuries and saves lives, say U.S. researchers who analyzed five years of crash data from six states -- Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Does stress increase blood pressure? This simple question has been the focus of intense research for many years.

"Can Meditation Curb Heart Attacks?" asked a recent headline in the NY Times. According to staff writer Roni Caryn Rabin, recent research suggests that meditation may indeed be good for the heart.

Patients with coronary heart disease who practiced transcendental meditation techniques had nearly 50 percent lower rates of heart attack, stroke, and death compared to non-meditating controls.

Froedtert Hospital has named Kathleen Bechtel, a veteran of Regions Hospital in St.

Two new studies provide compelling reasons to consider taking up transcendental meditation .

From the Division of Pediatric Surgery , Children's Research Institution , and the Department of Biophysics , Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and the Human Proteomics Program , School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Correspondence to Yang Shi, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, ...

From the Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.

Meditation can cut the risk of heart attack, stroke, and death by almost 50% in patients with existing coronary heart disease, according to a new clinical trial.

Prism Clinical Imaging, Inc., in collaboration with investigators at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, has received a $1.6 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and clinically validate advanced medical imaging software that aids the diagnosis and treatment of patients with brain cancer.

Patients with coronary heart disease who practiced the stress-reducing Transcendental MeditationA technique had nearly 50 percent lower rates of heart attack, stroke, and death compared to nonmeditating controls, according to the results of a first-ever study presented during the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Fla., on ...

Milwaukee, WI In cooperation with the US Marine Corps Toys for Tots program, Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin Springdale Health Center in Brookfield will conduct a Toys for Tots drive from November 16 through December 11.

A Rice Lake company that provides community hospitals and clinics with diagnostic images pulled in a $3.35 million federal grant, making it the state's top recipient of such grants for the most recently completed reporting period.

Mental Illness Awareness Week was honored recently by the Waukesha chapter of the National Association for Mental Illness at a dinner and awards presentation at Thunder Bay Grille in Pewaukee.

Research that is targeting the early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease has drawn national attention to the work of Michael Seidenberg, PhD, a faculty member at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.

A $1.1 million dollar gift from the Daniel and Laura Gruber Charitable Lead Trust #3 will boost the study of esophageal cancer at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee by establishing the James J. Gralton Laboratory and the James J. Gralton Endowed Research Fund.

Language Imaging Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA Address correspondence to Jeffrey R. Binder.

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING: Two experienced radiologists have joined Lake Forest Hospital's newly restructured Diagnostic Imaging Department.

Discover Mediaworks has hired D.P. Knudten as the company's creative director. Hal Leonard Corp.

An exclusive I-TEAM health investigation. Toxic water in our children's schools.