Health Care

Beware, be safe, be smart

Friday, August 24, 2012
The Partnership for Alcohol Safety wants to make sure students are aware that the Iowa City Police Department is conducting proactive party patrols this fall to look for apartment and house parties that are disruptive to neighbors or that have signs that things might be getting out of control.
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Locating the 'gullibility center'

Friday, August 24, 2012
Research at the UI identified the brain's "gullibility center."
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UI 'Patient R' challenges self-awareness assumptions

Friday, August 24, 2012
Psychological concepts and the theories of evolutionary development of self-awareness have been called into question by research with "Patient R" at the UI.
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Deeded bodies bring greater understanding of life

Thursday, August 23, 2012
Donors from all walks of life give their bodies to the Deeded Body Program in the UI Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology so that faculty can show health sciences students how the human body works.
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The roots of human self-awareness

Wednesday, August 22, 2012
A research team led by the University of Iowa has upended current thinking about areas in the human brain responsible for self-awareness.
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Damiano discusses child health

Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Pete Damiano of the UI Public Policy Center discusses the new UI children's health and wellbeing survey.

UI to hold annual Deeded Body Program memorial service Aug. 24

Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine will hold its annual memorial service for the Deeded Body Program at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24, at Oakland Cemetery, 1000 Brown St., Iowa City.

UI survey: Kids in Iowa are happier, safer

Thursday, August 16, 2012
A new study by the University of Iowa's Public Policy Center finds that Iowa children feel healthier, happier, and safer than children do nationally.

Why are elderly duped?

Thursday, August 16, 2012
Researchers at the University of Iowa have pinpointed for the first time the area in the human brain where doubt arises. The finding helps explain why older people, as well as others with damage to a specific brain region, are more prone to fall victim to deception and scams. Results published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.
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UI's driving simulator tests dangers of driving on Ambien

Wednesday, August 15, 2012
National ABC news correspondent Lisa Starck demonstrates the dangers of driving after taking sleep medications at the University of Iowa's National Advance Driving Simulator, home of the most advanced driving simulator in the country.
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Infants of obese mothers are slow developers

Tuesday, August 14, 2012
A new study has proven that pregnant women who are overweight affect how their children grow and develop. A team led by a University of Iowa researcher compared the weight and height of babies born to overweight and obese mothers with those born to normal-weight mothers.
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Survey: Iowa's children are healthy, feel safe

Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Iowa's children are healthy, happy, and feel safe in their communities and in their schools. Those are the findings from a University of Iowa-led survey of children and households in the state. The 2010 Iowa Child and Family Household Health Survey is the only statewide, population-based study of the health and well being of the state’s children.