Carver College of Medicine
New breast cancer treatment combines surgery, radiation therapy
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Experts at Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa are the first in the state to offer intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) for breast cancer patients. The treatment allows a therapeutic dose of radiation to be delivered immediately following surgery while the patient is still in the operating room.
Hawks to admire
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The University of Iowa honored outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni on April 10 at the 95th anniversary Finkbine Dinner, one of the university’s most prestigious award ceremonies.
$11 million NIH grant renewal benefits Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine has received its fifth consecutive grant renewal from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
UI Carver College of Medicine formalizes agreement for Des Moines regional campus
Thursday, April 5, 2012
It’s now official. Des Moines is the formal site of a regional branch campus for the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. A recent agreement between the Des Moines Area Medical Education Consortium and the UI Carver College of Medicine cements the arrangement for the next 10 years.
UI Health Care, Mercy expand collaboration
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The leaders of University of Iowa Health Care and Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids today, Wednesday, April 4, jointly announced plans to collaborate on the design and development of a new nonprofit health care organization that will enhance the health of communities in the Corridor and beyond.
UI study seeks adults with tinnitus
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
People with tinnitus may be eligible to participate in a University of Iowa study examining a method for testing tinnitus.
UI Health Care helps launch partnership to fight melanoma
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Midwest Melanoma Partnership, an initiative to advance melanoma research and improve care for patients with melanoma, was launched this month by a group of physicians, researchers, and patient advocates following a meeting at the University of Iowa.
UI experts comment on the battle against lung cancer
Friday, March 30, 2012
A trio of UI experts say tobacco company spending and cuts in prevention funding make it difficult to combat lung cancer.
Ponseti essay takes national honor
Friday, March 30, 2012
A University of Iowa student's essay about how the Internet and social media helped the Ponseti method become the gold standard for the treatment of clubfoot has won a national contest.
Fuortes helps 'nuclear cowboys'
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Laurence Fuortes, UI professor of occupational and environmental health, is helping Cold War "nuclear cowboys" receive benefits. Fuortes helped former atomic workers who were recently deemed eligible for compensation due to toxic exposures at Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University with the paperwork for their claims.
UI Health Sciences Research Week April 2–4
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
One of the Navy's first female fighter pilots who currently studies artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is among the five internationally recognized neuroscientists who will deliver free public lectures during the University of Iowa's Health Sciences Research Week 2012.
Just what the doctor ordered
Friday, March 23, 2012
Although she harbored serious doubts about medicine as a career choice, Amy Domeyer-Klenske focused on the human interactions that attracted her to medicine. Soon she realized she was on the right path—a path that took a desirable turn on Match Day.
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