Latest Health Care News

A safe way to clean out the medicine cabinet

Sunday, March 18, 2012
Don't just throw away that old prescription — UI pharmacy students can help make sure it's discarded safely and greenly.

Trailblazer in public health

Sunday, March 18, 2012
Julie Reynolds figured she'd go into private practice after dental school. Instead, she discovered a passion for confronting large-scale health challenges, forging a new path through school that took her around the world.

LEEDing the way

Sunday, March 18, 2012
The State Hygienic Laboratory will celebrate its LEED gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council on Tuesday, April 3, at the facility, with tours at 3:15 p.m. and remarks at 4 p.m.

Alumna overcame bacterial meningitis

Friday, March 16, 2012
While traveling abroad in 2002, finance major Amanda Richter was hospitalized with life-threatening bacterial meningitis. She returned to the UI that fall in a wheelchair, but after major surgeries and grafts, she can now walk again with a cane. “That's life. You adjust,” Amanda says. “I've always been a positive person.”

UI study: Tweak graduated license

Friday, March 16, 2012
A University of Iowa study finds the state’s graduated driver’s license program, in place for 10 years, could use some tweaking to prevent crashes and save lives. John Lundell, deputy director of the UI Injury Prevention Research Center, says Iowa was among the first states to launch a GDL program, but now changes are needed.

Their day in the sun

Friday, March 16, 2012
The Kid Captain program, developed as a partnership between University of Iowa Children’s Hospital and the Iowa Hawkeyes, brings stories of determination, strength, and hope to football game days.

Fixing a broken heart

Friday, March 16, 2012
When University of Iowa staffer Damian Simcox needed to fix a leaky heart valve, he didn't have to go far. The UI Heart and Vascular Center is a leader in heart valve treatment and has been performing minimally invasive heart surgery since 2008—the only hospital in the region to consistently do so.

Home at last

Friday, March 16, 2012
The new College of Public Health Building brings together faculty, students, and staff to create a vibrant home for public health learning and collaboration.

From bedside to screen

Friday, March 16, 2012
Over the last few years, alumna and former nurse Donna Glee Reim has showed up in some big-name films, putting her nursing experience to work in some unexpected ways.

Weckmann studied cancer delirium

Friday, March 16, 2012
Psychiatry and family medicine faculty member Michelle Weckmann studied the frequency of delirium in advanced cancer patients, and found that it is common due to many factors.

Jorge responds to Afghan rampage

Friday, March 16, 2012
UI psychiatrist Ricardo Jorge comments on the possibility that a traumatic brain injury led to a U.S. soldier's murderous rampage in Afghanistan.

High levels of MRSA in retail meat

Friday, March 16, 2012
Researchers at the University of Iowa College of Public Health found the antibiotic-resistant bacterium—which causes some 185,000 cases of food poisoning each year—in about 7 percent of pork products tested.

Grant expands use of Ponseti Method

Thursday, March 15, 2012
A $302,400 grant from Ronald McDonald House Charities will train physicians from around the world in the pioneering clubfoot treatment developed by late University of Iowa faculty member Ignacio Ponseti.

Estate gift supports diabetes research

Thursday, March 15, 2012
A $554,000 gift from the family of a University of Iowa alumnus will establish the Marvin F. Hall Family Diabetes Research Fund at the UI Carver College of Medicine.

Researchers expand dental implant project

Thursday, March 15, 2012
College of Dentistry investigators are studying how nanoscience techniques may help bone and soft tissue adhere to medical devices, potentially making for better implants.

Football fans pledge $1 million for kids

Thursday, March 15, 2012
The Iowa Ladies' Football Academy gives participants a chance to learn the game from some of the best coaches and players in the country, all while supporting the University of Iowa Children's Hospital.

Squeezing secrets from sea sponges

Thursday, March 15, 2012
Postdoctoral scholar Lei Chen hopes to help synthesize potential cancer-fighting molecules from sponges that live in the southwest Pacific.

A breath of fresh air

Thursday, March 15, 2012
College of Public Health alumna and epidemiologist Melissa Gutierrez is taking pediatric asthma care directly to families on Chicago's west side.

Step inside the BOD POD

Wednesday, March 14, 2012
University researchers who need to know about their human subjects’ body composition can now make use of the latest technology—the BOD POD. And the general public may soon be able to use it, too.

UI Rec Services offering youth yoga, Zumba

Thursday, March 1, 2012
UI Recreational Services is offering spring yoga and Zumba classes for third through eighth graders.