Health Care

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UI camp helps children who stutter improve their speech

Wednesday, June 18, 2014
This week the UI Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Clinic is hosting its annual camp for children who stutter, during which participants receive five hours of group and individual therapy a day for nine days—far more intensive than anything they receive while in school.
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Always stressed? Beware—it'll affect your short-term memory in old age

Wednesday, June 18, 2014
In older adults, an excess of the stress hormone cortisol has been linked to increased short-term memory loss—that's according to a new study by researchers at the University of Iowa.
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Stress hormone linked to short-term memory loss as we age

Tuesday, June 17, 2014
A new UI study reports a potential link between stress hormones and short-term memory loss in older adults. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, reveals that having high levels of cortisol—a natural hormone in our body whose levels surge when we are stressed—can lead to memory lapses as we age.
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Pathological gambling runs in families

Tuesday, June 17, 2014
A study by University of Iowa researchers confirms that pathological gambling runs in families and shows that first-degree relatives of pathological gamblers are eight times more likely to develop this problem in their lifetime than relatives of people without pathological gambling.
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Surgery may boost risks for smallest infants

Monday, June 16, 2014
Very-low-birth-weight babies who undergo major surgery appear to have an increased risk of death or subsequent neurodevelopmental impairment, according to a new study published June 16 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

Eating disorders expert will visit UI campus June 24, 25

Monday, June 16, 2014
Pamela Keel, a nationally recognized expert on eating disorders, will deliver two public lectures during a visit to the UI campus June 24 and 25. Keel's visit is co-sponsored by the Obesity Research and Educational Initiative and the Department of Psychiatry in the UI Carver College of Medicine.
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A father and his sons pay it forward

Sunday, June 15, 2014
For Rob Nelson, working side-by-side with his sons on the new UI Children's Hospital has special meaning: "I wouldn't have my family if it wasn't for that hospital."
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Josh Project comforts children at UI Hospitals and Clinics

Friday, June 13, 2014
Veterinary students from Iowa State University give away toy golden retrievers named Josh to comfort child patients at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Medical students participated in a grain bin rescue training exercise at UI.

UI holds grain bin rescue training

Medical students participated in a grain bin rescue training exercise at the University of Iowa so they're more familiar with the kinds of injuries that can be associated with that kind of an accident.
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UI Children's Hospital receives national recognition

Thursday, June 12, 2014
The University of Iowa Children's Hospital has been ranked among the best in the country in the latest annual survey by U.S. News & World Report.
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Football academy raises $1 million for UI Children's Hospital

Wednesday, June 11, 2014
A look inside the Iowa Ladies Football Academy, which has raised $1 million for children's health in its first four years.

Coming together for healing and hope

Wednesday, June 11, 2014
The Rape Victim Advocacy Program at the University of Iowa is offering a Women’s Sexual Violence Support Group beginning Wednesday, June 18 and continuing until Wednesday, Aug. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the RVAP offices, located at 332 S. Linn St., Suite 100 in Iowa City.