The US Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a new $1 million grant to the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison to be the first ever to evaluate a chronic-care system designed to help …
2019 Releases
BREATHE 2: UW-CTRI Receives $14 Million Grant
UW-CTRI Receives $14M Grant from National Cancer Institute to Partner with Health Systems, Match Quit-Smoking Treatments to Individual Patients: UW-CTRI’s Fifth Straight Center Grant MADISON—In a first, researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of …
CDC: Youth Nicotine Use Increased During 2017-2018
About 4.9 million middle and high school students were current users (used in the past 30 days) of some type of tobacco product in 2018, up from 3.6 million in 2017. This increase—driven by a …
New England Journal of Medicine: Only Half of Cancer Patients Who Smoke Get Help to Quit; NCI Aims to Fix It
While many smokers make New Year’s resolutions to quit smoking, only about half of cancer patients who smoke are offered help to quit by their oncology teams. That’s a lost opportunity, wrote experts in a …