Breadcrumb Home College of Public Health research finds stroke deaths declining in Iowa Wednesday, November 29, 2017 http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/stroke-deaths-decrease-in-iowa-20171125 James Torner, director of the Iowa Stroke Registry in the University of Iowa College of Public Health, examines why Iowa is one of the few states to see its rate of death by stroke decrease in recent years.