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.
Team Approach to Alzheimer's Disease Furthers Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment
Over the past decade, as part of the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) study, Sigrid Knuti has given blood and spinal fluid, run on treadmills, had her brain imaged and participated in timed memory tests so difficult they sometimes made her cry.
Harnessing Cellular Systems To Fight Deadly Diseases
Four decades ago, researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health had the right idea — to pursue a theory that they could harness patients’ own immune systems to fight and defeat cancer. Their perseverance and hard work are paying off, as they’ve recently made great strides in cellular immunotherapy, along with colleagues in myriad medical fields.