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Kids to help break ground on new UI Children's Hospital
Published: 2013.06.18 | By Tom Moore | 9:34 AM
Published: 2013.06.18
By Tom Moore
9:34 AM
Former pediatric patients will play a leading role in the groundbreaking ceremony for the new UI Children’s Hospital, which will begin at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, June 21, on the patio of the John Colloton Pavilion at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. Story
 

Be gone, bacteria

Published: 
2013.06.13 | By Richard C. Lewis | 06:03 AM
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A team of researchers led by the University of Iowa is recommending clinical guidelines that will cut post-surgical infection rate for staph bacteria (including MRSA) by 71 percent and by 59 percent for a broader class of infectious agents known as gram-positive bacteria. Story

County's kids among nation's healthiest

Iowa City Press Citizen: County's kids among nation's healthiest
Published: 
2013.06.12

Debra Waldron, director of the Division of Child and Community Health at the UI Children’s Hospital, comments on a new study that shows Johnson County is one of the 15 healthiest counties in the nation for kids. Story from: Iowa City Press Citizen

Iowa City Press Citizen

University of Iowa ranks high in best children's hospital categories

Cedar Rapids Gazette: University of Iowa ranks high in best children's hospital categories
Published: 
2013.06.11

The University of Iowa Children’s Hospital ranked in seven specialty categories in the latest U.S. News & World Report “Best Children’s Hospitals” rankings. Story from: Cedar Rapids Gazette

Cedar Rapids Gazette

UI Children's Hospital nationally ranked

Published: 
2013.06.11 | By Tom Moore | 03:36 PM

University of Iowa Children’s Hospital has been ranked in seven specialties in U.S. News & World Report’s 2013-14 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. Story

Brain circuit links obsessive-compulsive behavior and obesity

Published: 
2013.06.10 | By Jennifer Brown | 03:50 PM

A genetic breeding experiment to probe brain circuits involved in compulsive behavior has revealed a surprising connection with obesity. Loss of an obesity-causing gene restored normal grooming behavior in OCD mice. Surprisingly, the OCD mutation also restored normal body weight in obese mice. Story

Spotlight: Nursing professor influences hospice training in India

UI College of Nursing website: Spotlight: Nursing professor influences hospice training in India
Published: 
2013.06.03
An image of a woman sitting on a street in India, surrounded by colorful flowers

Joann (Jo) Eland, UI College of Nursing associate professor, took a group of 18 students to India this past academic year, where she taught a three-week course titled "Hospice, Pain, and Palliative Care." Story from: UI College of Nursing website

UI College of Nursing website

Carver College of Medicine to honor seven with Distinguished Alumni Awards

Published: 
2013.06.06 | By UI Health Care Marketing and Communications | 10:05 AM

The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will honor seven individuals at its Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony and luncheon Friday, June 7. Story

UI researchers explore acidities of drinks, tooth erosion

The Atlantic: UI researchers explore acidities of drinks, tooth erosion
Published: 
2013.06.04
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University of Iowa researchers in the College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics looked at the acidities of the things people drink, and how acidity correlated with tooth erosion. Story from: The Atlantic

The Atlantic

Supplements don't slow AMD progression: NEI study

Published: 
2013.06.05 | By Molly Rossiter | 10:03 AM

Some dietary supplements once thought to slow the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have been proven to either show no effect or may even be harmful to some segments of the population. Story

A summer research program with a twist

Published: 
2013.06.05 | By Jennifer Brown | 09:55 AM
instructors with student in lab looking through microscope

The FUTURE in Biomedicine program brings faculty and students from Iowa's primarily undergraduate institutions to work with UI biomedical scientists in summer-long research collaborations. Story

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