Carver College of Medicine
UI students named to President's list for fall 2012
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Some 200 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the President's List for the 2012 fall semester.
Caring for rural Iowa
Thursday, February 21, 2013
The Carver College of Medicine Rural Iowa Scholars Program (CRISP) embeds rural elements in the medicine curriculum through mentorships, seminars, research, and field experiences in smaller communities. Program graduates are expected to practice in a rural Iowa community for at least five years after completing a qualifying residency.
UI College of Medicine looks to fill state's needs for rural doctors
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and its students are trying to fill the state’s growing need for doctors in both rural and metropolitan areas.
UI students receive degrees after 2012 fall session
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The University of Iowa awarded an estimated 1,500 degrees at the close of the 2012 fall session.
Study finds possible link between diabetes, increased heart attack death risk
Friday, February 15, 2013
Having diabetes doubles a person’s risk of dying after a heart attack, but the reason for the increased risk is not clear. A new University of Iowa study suggests the link may lie in the over-activation of an important heart enzyme.
UI partners on centralized liver center
Thursday, February 14, 2013
The University of Iowa is joining forces with two health-care organizations in a partnership to improve care for patients with liver disease.
UI study finds 'lazy eye' can be detected as early as age 1
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Susannah Longmuir with UI Health Care says that the goal of a recently published study is to identify children with amblyopia, sometimes called lazy eye, as young as possible so that they can start treatment before they have an eye problem or it gets worse.
UI researcher: cost of hip replacement surgery hard to find
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Consumers wanting to know the cost of hip replacement will find it's difficult to find out ahead of time how much the procedure will cost, according to Jaime Rosenthal, one of the authors of a study published by JAMA in its publication, JAMA Internal Medicine.
UI study finds patients in the dark on hip replacement costs
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
A new study published by University of Iowa researchers discovered that many hospitals are unable to tell patients what the cost of a hip replacement will be, and for those who can, the costs can vary widely.
Price for hip replacement highly variable, hard to obtain
Monday, February 11, 2013
Forty percent of top-ranked and 36 percent of non-top-ranked hospitals were unable to provide a price estimate for a total hip replacement procedure. Moreover, among the hospitals that could provide an estimate, the cost quoted for the procedure ranged from $11,100 to $125,798—a greater than ten-fold difference.
UI expert says rehabilitation plan can help those with vision loss
Friday, February 8, 2013
Mark Wilkinson, a low vision specialist at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, says that a vision rehabilitation plan helps people reach their true visual potential when nothing more can be done from a medical or surgical standpoint.
Study suggests cystic fibrosis affects nervous system
Friday, February 8, 2013
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited life-shortening disease that is known to affect the lungs and digestive organs. A new study by University of Iowa researchers suggests that the CF mutation also affects the nervous system and might directly cause some neural abnormalities experienced by people with CF.
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