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Mental health supporters honored by NAMI chapter

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.

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Related Topix: Milwaukee Metro, Waukesha, WI, Pewaukee, WI, Brookfield, WI, Menomonee Falls, WI

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Newswise

What Celebrity Names Can Reveal about the Onset of Alzheimer's Disease

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.

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Related Topix: Alzheimer's, Health, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science, Franklin University, Medicine, Neurology, Wayne State University

Wauwatosa

Got Heartburn???

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.

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Related Topix: Heartburn, Medicine, Health, Esophageal Cancer, Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Metro

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Cerebral Cortex

Where Is the Semantic System? A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis of...

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

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Related Topix: Milwaukee, WI

Thu Nov 05, 2009

News-Sun

People on the Move

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

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Related Topix: Radiology, Medicine, Lake Forest, IL, Northwestern University, Boating, Brunswick, Waukegan, IL

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

New Faces, New Places

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

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Related Topix: Media, Music, Marquette University, Wells Fargo , Banking, Financial Services, Wisconsin, Fitchburg, WI

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Today's TMJ4

Toxic Water In Area Schools

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

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wind Lake, WI

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Bizjournals

Family donates $1 million to Medical College

Dr. Reza Shaker . . . "It is really heartwarming to know the family has decided to make this generous donation." Laura Gralton was 21 years old when she lost her father to esophageal cancer.

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Sat Oct 31, 2009

The Gateway

Board of Regents discusses stem cell research

Karim Si-Tayeb, a doctorial student at the Medical College of Wisconsin, separates stem cells from one another to keep them in a usable state while working in the Duncan Lab, where they are producing and maintaining embryonic stem cells, in May 2008.

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Related Topix: Milwaukee, WI, US Politics, George Bush, W.

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Brookfield

Springdale Health Center to Host Mammogram Party

Milwaukee, WI Getting a mammogram has never been this much fun. To encourage women to get this important annual screening, Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin Springdale Health Center is hosting a special gathering that includes free pampering treats for women.

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Related Topix: Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Metro, Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Brookfield, WI

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Press-Enterprise

University names first leader of its medical program

UC Riverside has named a founding dean for its developing medical school, a job that includes not only recruiting students but keeping them as local practitioners after they graduate.

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Related Topix: UC Riverside, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside Metro

ClipSyndicate

Local Stem Cell Break Through Could Help Fight Liver Disease

Cell biologist at Medical College of Wisconsin discovered a way to turn skin cells into healthy liver cells.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Cell Biology, Video, Health

Mon Oct 26, 2009

WauwatosaNOW.com

Pathologist Joins Medical College of Wisconsin Faculty

Alexandra Harrington, M.D., has been appointed assistant professor of pathology at The Medical College of Wisconsin and to the medical staff at Froedtert Hospital, a major teaching affiliate of the College.

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Green Bay Press-Gazette

Business briefcase

5 years Mandy Alexander, Mike Landry, WS Packaging Group; Scott Thoresen, city of De Pere New on the job Prevea Health has hired obstetrician and gynecologist Michael Pech.

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Related Topix: De Pere, WI, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Metro

Sun Oct 25, 2009

WauwatosaNOW.com

Emergency Cardiac Care Doc Elected to Institute of Medicine

Tom P. Aufderheide, M.D., an internationally recognized researcher in the field of emergency cardiac care at The Medical College of Wisconsin, was one of 65 people in the United States and five foreign associates elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Adult., Electronic, Milwaukee, WI

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Wisconsin Technology Network

Inside Wisconsin: "Academic R&D spending can translate to more economic growth statewide"

Toss in $63 million in non-science R&D spending at the UW-Madison, which was also third in that category, and the composite rank is second - only behind Johns Hopkins, where about half of its $1.68 billion total is tied to defense work within its Applied Physics Laboratory.

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Related Topix: Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Madison, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, Marquette University

Wed Oct 21, 2009

WauwatosaNOW.com

Heart Cell Development Could Lead to Treatment

The Medical College of Wisconsin has been awarded a five-year, $8 million, multi-investigator Program Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health to understand how human pluripotent stem cells, defined as cells which if left to their own designs can develop into any of the more than 200 cell types in the human body, can be channeled to ...

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Cell Biology, Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, University of Georgia

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

UPAF names campaign leaders

Oct. 20, 2009 2:01 p.m. The United Performing Arts Fund announced Tuesday that Ted D. Kellner, chairman and chief executive officer of Fiduciary Management, Inc., and Linda T. Mellowes, a community volunteer, will be the co-chairs for the 2010 campaign.

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Related Topix: 9, Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Metro, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health

Tue Oct 20, 2009

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

New Faces, New Places

IMS , Madison, hired Keith Hoffman as director of marketing. Education Concordia University Wisconsin , Mequon, hired Gwendolyn Graves as a senior graphic designer in its marketing department.

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Related Topix: Marketing, Wisconsin, Concordia University-Wisconsin, Mequon, WI, Banking, Financial Services, Marshall and Ilsley

Sun Oct 18, 2009

Small Times

Skin Cells Morph to Liver Cells: Medical College Team Reports Advance

Oct. 9--In a fresh demonstration of science's newfound ability to alter the basic units of human life, researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin have turned the cells in human skin into those in the liver, work that opens new avenues for treating diseases of the liver without relying on organ transplants.

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Related Topix: Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology

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