Medical College of Wisconsin News

Brennan Decker, a third-year medical student at the Medical College of Wisconsin, has been accepted into the National Institutes of Health-Oxford-Cambridge M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Program.

MADISON -- Governor Scott Walker and Mayor Tom Barrett are front and center in the recall election, but there's also an independent candidate running.

Dr. Matt Gerlach is joining Estes Park Medical Center Specialty Clinic in mid-June. His specialty care of the neck and spine.

The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin will host an open house June 6, 2012, from 5:00 P.M. 7:00 P.M. for anyone interested in pursuing a master's degree or one of the College's certificate programs.

Dr. Erik Stickney spent about 13 years on active duty in the U.S. Army. For most of that time, he had a pretty plush assignment: seeing cancer patients at Tripler Medical Center in Honolulu.

The 2012 WBCS, Inc. Showhouse for a Cure features a beautiful home in Milwaukee's North Point Historic District.

Newswise - Milwaukee, WI May 29, 2012 -- Malignant Hyperthermia is an inherited muscle disorder most often triggered by certain anesthetic drugs leading to a life-threatening crisis that requires prompt, specific treatment.

Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome is a well-recognized functional gastrointestinal disorder in children but its presentation is poorly understood in adults.

No, no one's that lucky, but the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Showhouse has gotten pretty close.

Stroke in Children With Posterior Fossa Brain Malformations, Hemangiomas, Arterial Anomalies, Coarctation of the Aorta and Cardiac Defects, and Eye Abnormalities Syndrome From the Departments of Dermatology and Pediatrics , Radiology , and Dermatology , Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; the Department of Dermatology , University of ... (more)

Jeremy Allred, a third-year medical student at the Medical College, has been selected for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellows Program, a one-year research enrichment program that increases the training of physician-scientists. Allred is one of 70 students nationwide to be selected from a pool of hundreds of applicants.

Appleton officials say the city has been in talks with at least two medical colleges looking to expand in Wisconsin.

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin have identified novel biomarkers that could be used to confirm exposure to damaging radiation in large groups of people potentially exposed to unknown and variable doses for the purpose of triage and treatment.

This Memorial Day weekend, we will rightly honor those who served our country and paid the ultimate price.

Life Technologies to Showcase its Ion Torrent Sequencing Technology Life Technologies Corporation will bring its mobile DNA sequencing lab to Milwaukee, Wednesday, May 23, to demonstrate the advances and applications of genomic science.

The Medical College of Wisconsin received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Do you remember the food you ate in high school and college? In college, maybe you remember the dining hall food you tried to *avoid*. And in high school, sometimes it's hard to find time to eat at all between classes and papers and activities.

The findings are published in the May 1 issue of Radiation Research. John E. Baker, Ph.D., professor of surgery, biochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is the lead author of the study.

The way you walk could reveal more about you than meets the eye. It can detect underlying medical problems - problems with your feet, ankles, knees and hips.

To whom correspondence should be addressed: Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.