Health Care

Village is really a nursing home

Monday, April 16, 2012
Marianne Smith, UI assistant professor of nursing specializing in dementia care, comments on an innovative Dutch nursing home that looks and operates like a village.
Fabian Veron and Analia Bouter

Miracle morgue baby

Monday, April 16, 2012
UI premature infant specialist Edward Bell explains how Argentina's "miracle morgue baby," who survived 12 hours without assistance before being discovered alive, could have been declared dead.

U.S. poet laureate to give keynote address at UI writing conference

Monday, April 16, 2012
United States Poet Laureate Philip Levine will give the keynote address at the sixth annual writing conference presented by the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

A new lease on life

Friday, April 13, 2012
The UI Heart and Vascular Center is using a breakthrough approach called Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement to treat certain elderly and high-risk patients with severe stenosis—a narrowing of the heart’s aortic valve.

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.

Work crews to dispose of ether containers Wednesday

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Work crews will remove and dispose of three quart-size containers of ethyl ether from the University of Iowa’s Medical Labs Wednesday afternoon, starting around 5 p.m.

Groovin' for good

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids will host the second annual Cedar Rapids Dance Marathon from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 14, in the Hennessey Recreation Center at Mount Mercy University.

Miller-Meeks to lecture on health care policy April 11

Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Mariannette Miller-Meeks, director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, will speak as this week’s Policy Matters’ guest lecturer on the topic of health care policy at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 in the University of Iowa Main Library's Shambaugh Auditorium.

$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.

Seed money

Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Trenton Place, a graduate student in the University of Iowa Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, has been awarded a $2,500 grant from the American Medical Association Foundation’s Seed Grant Research Program to examine how oxygen levels within pancreatic cancer tumors affect the cancer's ability to spread to distant organs.

TEDMED sessions will explore future of health and medicine

Friday, April 6, 2012
UI Health Care is hosting 11 simulcast sessions of TEDMED, an event gathering 1,300 adventurous thinkers and doers from 300 medical and nonmedical disciplines April 10-13 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

UI Children's Hospital hosts open house for Fragile X clinic April 14

Friday, April 6, 2012
University of Iowa Children's Hospital in Iowa City will host an open house event to introduce its Fragile X Clinic from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at the Center for Disabilities and Development, 100 Hawkins Drive.