University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: News

UW-Madison to expand COVID-10 testing in spring

UW-Madison partners with Shield T3 from University of Illinois System to expand testing.

Covid Infections in Animals Prompt Scientific Concern

GHI Advisory Member Tony Goldberg has seen devastation among animals as diseases cross from humans to animals.

How politics paralyzed Wisconsin’s pandemic response – and left families to grieve their losses

GHI Advisory Committee members Ajay Sethi and Dominique Brossard consider what makes messaging successful.

COVID-19 model quantifies impact of region-specific social distancing orders

New UW-Madison study quantifies impact of social distancing on COVID-19 caseload.

UW expert debunks flu myths

GHI Associate Director James Conway, M.D., busts seven common flu myths.

Campus blood drive to benefit COVID-19 convalescent plasma program in Madison and across the country

Students asked to participate in the Badgers Give Back Blood Drive will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 27-29.

Madison is home to one of the world’s top virologists

Professor Yoshihiro Kawaok, a member of the GHI Advisory Committee, a is studying COVID-19 in his posts at UW-Madison and the University of Tokyo.

A warmer, wetter Wisconsin caused by climate change will have severe health impacts, report says

The Wisconsin Examiner takes a look at a new report showing the effects of climate change on health in Wisconsin.

New report shows how climate change is affecting Wisconsin’s health now

“Medical Alert: Climate Change is Harming our Health in Wisconsin," a new report from UW-Madison Professors Jonathan Patz and Dominique Brossard shows how climate change already affects Wisconsinites and what can be done to protect their health.

First relatives of rubella virus discovered in bats in Uganda and mice in Germany

At night in a Ugandan forest, a team of American and African scientists take oral swabs from insect-eating cyclops leaf-nosed bats. In a necropsy room near the Baltic Sea, researchers try to determine what killed a donkey, a Bennett’s tree-kangaroo and a capybara at a German zoo — all of them suffering from severe brain …