Health Care
UI student-owned business wins $100,000 at prestigious TCU start-up competition
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
HealthTech Solutions, a business founded by two University of Iowa students, both from Iowa, that makes it easier to connect organ donors with recipients, won the grand prize in a start-up venture competition sponsored by TCU.
UI to teach business and leadership skills to health care providers across Iowa
Monday, April 24, 2017
A new partnership among three University of Iowa colleges is training doctors in the ways of business. The Office of Healthcare Leadership Education (OHLE) will help Iowa health care providers better understand the economic forces at work in their practices.
How Vitamin C May Help Cancer Treatments Work Better
Friday, April 7, 2017
Researchers at the University of Iowa find that administering high doses of intravenous vitamin C to cancer patients is safe; the method may also boost the results of chemo and radiation therapy.
Financial math may help build a better HIV vaccine
Thursday, April 6, 2017
What do particle diffusion and stock price prediction have to do with building a better HIV vaccine? According to University of Iowa microbiologist Hillel Haim, you can apply concepts from both to predict the evolution of HIV surface proteins, making it easier to design effective vaccines.
UI hosts conference to save millions of lives globally
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Millions of women die every year from the simple household task of cooking. The University of Iowa is hosting a group of internationally recognized experts at a conference, Women’s Health and the Environment: Going up in Smoke, to address the silent global crisis of cookstove smoke.
Device invented at UI helps patients communicate with caregivers
Monday, April 3, 2017
The Noddle, a device invented by UI-spinout company Voxello, is a technology that helps patients communicate with their health care providers, even though they are unable to speak.
UI researchers document how melanoma tumors form
Friday, March 31, 2017
University of Iowa researchers have documented for the first time how melanoma cells form tumors. The team reports the process is similar to that of breast cancer cells, and they have successfully screened for two antibodies that stopped tumor formation in both cancers. Results published in the journal “PLOS One.”
High-dose vitamin C proves safe and well-tolerated in brain and lung cancer trials
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Evidence is growing that adding high-dose, intravenous vitamin C to standard chemotherapy and radiation treatment may improve outcomes for patients with a wide range of cancers. Researchers with Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa report promising results from a phase 1 clinical trial.
UI undergrads tackle pressing health problems
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Researchers at the UI’s Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building are working to eradicate diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s—and they rely on undergraduates for help. As early as their first year, UI undergrads get hands-on research experience and make important contributions to their fields.
Brain stimulation improves schizophrenia-like cognitive problems
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
University of Iowa researchers have found that by stimulating the cerebellum of rats with schizophrenia-like cognitive problems, they can normalize brain activity in the frontal cortex and correct the rats’ ability to estimate the passage of time. Difficulty accurately measuring time is common issue experienced by people with schizophrenia.
Hauer earns NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Jill Hauer, a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics at the University of Iowa, earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship for 2017 to study a kidney disease.
UI student starts business for siblings of children in traumatic situations
Monday, March 27, 2017
Siblings Empowered, a business co-founded at UI by student Caleigh Bemont, uses online platforms to provide emotional support to children of siblings who are in traumatic life situations.
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