Health Care
UI Recreational Services offers second Bootcamp session
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
University of Iowa Recreational Services is offering another session of Bootcamp, a fitness class that combines functional sports training exercises, metabolic conditioning, and partner and group exercises.
Listening matters for mothers
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
A University of Iowa study shows that mothers with prematurely born babies benefit emotionally and mentally from one-on-one sessions with a hospital nurse. The pilot "listening visits" may provide a framework for helping pre-term infant mothers combat anxiety and depression. Results published in the Journal of Perinatology.
Lung transplantees walk on air with their UI doctors
Monday, September 30, 2013
Lung transplant patients and their families walked alongside their physicians from University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' transplant center Saturday at the American Lung Association's Fight for Air Walk in Des Moines.
Steroids capable of regenerating themselves in the environment
Friday, September 27, 2013
A new University of Iowa study, published in the journal Science, challenges the longstanding belief that anabolic steroids become less ecologically harmful as they degrade.
Oelwein girl is honorary Kid Captain Sept. 28
Friday, September 27, 2013
Emma Miller was just 4 years old when she had an adverse reaction to medication, causing her lips to swell and her skin to blister and eventually shed. The Oelwein youngster will be the honorary Kid Captain when the Iowa Hawkeyes take on the Minnesota Golden Gophers Saturday, Sept. 28, in an away game.
Long-lasting steroids
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Certain anabolic steroids and pharmaceutical products last longer in the environment than previously known, according to a new study led by the University of Iowa. The researchers found that the steroid trenbolone acetate, along with some other pharmaceutical products, never fully degrade in the environment, and can partially regenerate themselves under certain conditions. Results published online...
UI vaccine unit wins multimillion dollar federal contract
Thursday, September 26, 2013
The University of Iowa is one of nine institutions nationwide to receive a multimillion-dollar contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to conduct clinical trials of promising vaccines and therapies for infectious diseases.
Eating fish may not help with memory, thinking skills
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Older women with higher blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids did not have any better memory or thinking skills after six years than women with lower levels, says new University of Iowa research.
UI study: Omega-3s may not help thinking skills after all
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
New research led by University of Iowa investigators suggests that omega-3 fatty acids found in foods such as salmon and nuts don't benefit thinking and memory skills.
Fish and nuts may not benefit thinking skills
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
A University of Iowa study finds eating foods high in omega-3’s, like fish and nuts, may not benefit our thinking skills as we age—especially women.
UI testing vaccine for deadly flu strain
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Pat Winokur of UI Health Care is testing a vaccine for a potentially deadly strain of influenza that killed dozens of people in China earlier this year, a strain so unfamiliar in humans that the vaccine may have to be combined with adjuvants, compounds that help boost immune system response.
Cedar Rapids boy is Kid Captain when Hawkeyes host Western Michigan
Friday, September 20, 2013
Doctors learned Myles Peterman would be born with hydroencephalitis—a buildup of fluid inside the skull that puts pressure on the brain—and spina bifida, a birth defect in which the spinal column does not close completely while the baby is still in the womb. Now 13, he's had a variety of surgeries and comes to UI Children's Hospital a few times a year.
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