Health Care

Julie Reynolds with a group of children.

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.
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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

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.
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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.
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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.
View from the window of the College of Public Health building of the Old Capitol and campus.

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

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.