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Advances in Asthma
When I started caring for asthma patients, children and adults with this condition didn’t do physical activity. Students got doctors’ notes to sit out of physical education classes,” recalls William Busse, MD ’66, who began his medical career in allergy at a military hospital near Seattle in the late 1960s.
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Preventing Obesity: Research and Community-Based Programs Tackle Statewide Public Health Challenge
More broccoli!” “Pass the onions!” This is not what you’d expect to hear among first- and second-grade students.
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A Decade of Progress: Melding Medicine and Public Health
A decade ago, the University of Wisconsin Medical School became the nation’s first school to fully integrate medicine and public health, signifying its dedication to address society’s most challenging health-related problems.
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Promoting Health and Health Equity in Urban Wisconsin
In a central Milwaukee, Wisconsin, neighborhood landmarked by Jake’s Deli and the Northside YMCA, transformations are taking place.