Carver College of Medicine
UI's Polgreen says social media tools supplement traditional flu surveillance
Friday, January 11, 2013
Philip Polgreen, an epidemiologist at the University of Iowa, says that while new social media and crowdsourcing tools make it easier to track one of the worst flu seasons in a long time, such tools also have their limits and are timely supplements to traditional surveillance.
UI researcher says percentage of Iowans with gambling problem declines
Monday, January 7, 2013
University of Iowa psychiatrist and gambling researcher Donald W. Black says his latest published study on compulsive gambling has found that the percentage of gamblers who report gambling problems has dropped despite the expansion of casinos in the state.
UI researcher learns mechanism of hearing is similar to car battery
Monday, January 7, 2013
University of Iowa biologists have advanced their knowledge of human hearing by studying a similar auditory system in fruit flies—and by making use of the fruit fly “love song.” Results featured on the cover of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
UI study shows more hospitalized children surviving cardiac arrest
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
More children are surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest than they did one decade ago, according to a University of Iowa-led study of data from hospitals using resuscitation guidelines from the American Heart Association.
More children surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Children who had in-hospital cardiac arrest in 2009, were three times more likely to survive than children who had cardiac arrests in 2000. In addition, among surviving children, the risk of severe brain damage appears to have remained unchanged during this period.
Newborn fights the odds, continues to thrive at UI Children's Hospital
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Despite a troubled first trimester, Alicia Ames entered her second trimester finally feeling good about her pregnancy. Then her water broke at just 20 weeks and she and her baby relied on UI Hospitals and Clinics and UI Children’s Hospital to see them through.
UI psychiatrist explains study linking distress to stroke death in seniors
Friday, December 14, 2012
UI psychiatrist Jess Fiedorowicz, M.D., Ph.D., comments on new finding that psychosocial distress in older individuals appears to increase risk of stroke death.
More casinos do not mean more gamblers
Friday, December 14, 2012
While the number of casinos in Iowa has doubled since 1995, there are fewer gamblers overall, and fewer gambling addicts as well, according to a new study from the University of Iowa. The results suggest the market for gaming facilities, in Iowa and other states, reaches a saturation point. Findings published in the journal "Annals of Clinical Psychiatry."
Commencement ceremonies
Monday, December 10, 2012
The University of Iowa will confer an estimated 1,500 degrees at three December commencement ceremonies Friday, Dec. 14 and Saturday, Dec. 15, to honor students graduating at the end of the fall semester.
UI creates first patient registry for childhood pancreatic disease
Thursday, December 6, 2012
The University of Iowa is the lead institution for a first-ever international patient registry to study a rare pancreas disease in children. The pediatric pancreatitis registry is funded by a $275,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health obtained by UI associate professor Aliye Uc.
Unexpected toughness may mark out cancer cells in the blood
Monday, December 3, 2012
A University of Iowa study suggests that cancer cells are more resistant than normal cells to the powerful fluid forces found in the bloodstream. This resistance to fluid shear stress could provide a biomarker to improve detection and monitoring of circulating cancer cells in blood.
Karandikar named head of pathology at UI Carver College of Medicine
Friday, November 30, 2012
Leaders with University of Iowa Health Care have appointed Nitin Karandikar, M.D., Ph.D., as the new head of the Department of Pathology at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Karandikar will also hold the Dr. Richard G. Lynch Chair in Experimental Pathology.
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