UI Health Care News

November 16, 2009

• UI Selected as Hub for Nationwide Birth Defects Research Effort
• Meet Kid Captain Trae Hamilton
• Health For Your Lifetime: Cancers of the Lung and Esophagus
• Campbell, Welsh Renewed as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

November 9, 2009

• Pamela Terrill, MS, ARNP: A front-line fighter against sexual assault and the myths that compound it
• Kelby Telander Meet Kid Captain Kelby Telander
• Study: Depression Can Lead to Inflated Reports of Physical Symptoms
• UI Study Reveals Second Pathway to Feeling Your Heartbeat

November 2, 2009

• Pappajohns' Record $26.4 M Gift Commitment Will Name UI Biomedical Research Institute
• Health For Your Lifetime: Women and Cancer
• Meet Kid Captain Clarissa Kraayenbrink
• Changes for Visitors

October 27, 2009

• Changes for Visitors
• UI Children's Hospital Wins Gameroom Makeover
• Meet Kid Captain Kyle Roseman
• Risk of Lymphedema for Breast Cancer Survivors
• Simulations Improve Communications with Patients

October 19, 2009

• $2.2 Million NIH Grant Supports UI Women's Reproductive Health Research
• Ignacio Ponseti, creator of innovative, non-surgical clubfoot treatment, dies at 95
• Meet Kid Captain Cal Kunnert
• American Heart Association Honors UI's Sigmund
• Parkinson's Disease May Increase Crash Risk in Low Visibility

October 12, 2009

• Fraternal Order of Eagles Advances UI Diabetes Partnership
• Meet Kid Captains Nathaniel and Lucas Anderson
• Study: Childhood Abuse Seems to Impact Gene Involved in Depression
• UI Cystic Fibrosis Center Earns Quality Care Award

October 5, 2009

• Health For Your Lifetime: What's New in Treating Prostate Cancer
• Meet Kid Captain Jacob Endress
• UI Sports Medicine Center Dedication Set
• UI Children's Hospital Competing to Win a Gameroom Makeover

September 28, 2009

• It's Time for Your Flu Shot
• Meet Kid Captain Savannah Erck
• XBOX for the Kids: Game Makeover
• UI Scientists Use Blood Brain Barrier as Therapy Delivery System

September 21, 2009

• IGNACIO PONSETI The clubfoot treatment pioneer is changing medicine—and the lives of children around the world.
• Meet Kid Captain Kristin Klemesrud
• UI Cancer Biology Researchers Receive Federal Grants
• UI Receives Grants Related to Serious Disease During Pregnancy

September 14, 2009

• UI Team Reveals Molecular Mechanism Underlying a Form of Diabetes
• Meet Kid Captain Nikolas Ball
• UI Children's Hospital Competing to Win a Gameroom Makeover
• Annual Courage Ride Planned for September 26

September 7, 2009

• University of Iowa Children's Hospital Studies H1N1 Flu Vaccine
• Meet Kid Captain Jack Koehn
• UI Team Improves Delivery of Cancer-Fighting Molecules
• Knee Osteoarthritis Is Focus of UI Research

August 31, 2009

• UI Hospitals and Clinics Serves as Lead N1H1 Testing Site
  
• Gene Discovery Reveals a Critical Protein's Function in Hearing
  
• First Annual Aiming for a Cure Foundation MacBride Open | Radiothons
  
• $1.5 Million Grant Advances Vision Research at UI
  

August 17-24, 2009

• Illinois Couple Commits $1 Million for UI Epilepsy Research
• Tanning Beds Increase Cancer Risk
• Partners in Diabetes Care
• All Childhood Cancer Survivors Should Be Followed by a Doctor

August 10, 2009

• UI Resarch Funding Increases 10.3 Percent to Record $429.5 Million
• Study: Being Active as a Preschooler Pays Off Later in Childhood
• Carb Control Advocate Ahead of His Time

August 3, 2009

• Sticky Protein Helps Reinforce Fragile Muscle Membranes
• Airway Cells Use 'Tasting' Mechanism to Detect and Clear Harmful Substances
• Nature? Nurture? UI Scientists Say Neither

July 27, 2009

• UI Children's Hospital, Hawkeye Football Program Will Honor Pediatric Patients
• Individuals, Group with UI Health Care Earn Governor's Volunteer Awards
• Blind Cycling Champion Leads UI's Project 3000 RAGBRAI Team
• Easing Challenges for Young Diabetes Patients

July 20, 2009

• UI Hospitals and Clinics ranked again among national elite
• Murray Cares for Kids
• Cognitive Training Reduces Older Adults' Health Care Costs
• UI Assists in Major Clinical Diabetes Studies

July 13, 2009

• Mark Anderson Named Head of UI Department of Internal Medicine
• Schizophrenia Research at UI Receives $1.6 Million NIH Grant
• Sellout Crowd Hears Ehrmann; Raises $10,000 for UI Children's Hosptial
• UI Nets $3.6 Million Grant for Glaucoma Research

July 6, 2009

• Faculty Honored
• Yes, you can: CHAMPS
• How old do you have to be before you qualify for old age?
• Vitamin D alert

June 29, 2009

• UI Hospitals and Clinics Receives American Heart Association Award
• Increased Household Endotoxin Associated with Poverty, People, Pets
• He's a Guitar Man Again
• Standing Straight: Spinal osteotomy corrects woman's severely 'S-curved' backbone

June 22, 2009

• UI Children's Hospital Program Is Ranked by U.S.News & World Report
• On Your Mark. Get Set. GO!
• Taking On Bullies
• Fructose Intolerance

June 15, 2009

• Ferentz, Kaeding to Host Event June 25 to Benefit UI Children's Hospital
• UI-led Team Develops DNA Compounds That Could Help Treat Lupus
• Hospitalized Patients Need Better Understanding of CPR and Outcomes
• Hospital Staff and Programs Receive Recognition

June 8, 2009

• More Than Child's Play
• A Celebration of Life: The Spirit of Teamwork event
• UI Children's Hospital Is Part of National Pediatric Brain Injury Initiative
• You Heart Is in Your Hands Challenge

June 1, 2009

• UI-led NIH Study Shows Drug Aids Hemodialysis Treatment
• STAR 102.5 Radiothon Raises $198,000 for UI Children's Hospital
• New UI Health Care Program Makes Vascular Screening Easy
• UI Gene Therapy Center Receives $5.5 Million Grant Renewal

May 25, 2009

• UI Trauma Center Earns Top Status for Adults and Children
• UI Hospitals and Clinics Transplant Programs Get Letters of Approval
• Health For Your Lifetime
• EMS Week Honors Emergency Medical Professionals for Their Critical Roles

May 18, 2009

• UI Health Care's Annual Report Available
• STAR 102.5 FM Radiothon Benefits UI Children's Hospital
• Hybrid Surgery Debut
• UI Surgeons First In Iowa to Use New-Generation Operating Rooms

May 11, 2009

• 100 Great Iowa Nurses' Honored in Des Moines
• UI Study Suggests a New Target for Treatment of Depression
• UI Faculty Recognized for Their Work

May 4, 2009

• Campbell Receives March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
• Influenza Update; H1N1
• Lunch Bag Sales to Support Breast Cancer Research
• Urology Recognition

April 27, 2009

• Abboud Receives Kober Medal in Recognition of Achievements
• Swine Flu Update
• UI Hospitals and Clinics Transplant Programs Approved
• April Is National Donate Life Month: Blood Donation

April 20, 2009

• Free Head and Neck Cancer Screening Offered
• UI Celebrates National Volunteer Week
• UI Researchers Study Serious Eye Disorder
• UI Hospitals and Clinics Recognized for Organ Donation Success

April 13, 2009

• Genetic Discovery Could Lead to a Male Pharmacological Contraceptive
• Retreat and Relax Stroke Camp Offers Respite for Stroke Survivors and Caregivers
• Blue Rose Gala
• April is National Donate Life Month

Week of April 6, 2009

• Interpreting and Translation Service Speaks Volumes
• Carol Scott-Connor Is Truly Remarkable
• Report Finds Injuries a Leading Cause of Death in Iowa
• Study Finds School Buses Among Safest Way to Travel in Iowa

Week of March 30, 2009

• 'Inspiring Soles' Winner Benefits Iowa Marrow Donor Program
• Wireless Technology Could Boost Hand Hygiene Compliance
• UI Carver College of Medicine Mini Medical School Explores Heart and Cardiovascular Disease
• Cognitive Training Lowers the Risk of Worsening Depressive Symptoms

Week of March 23, 2009

• Eye Donation: A Gift That Gives Twice
• New Insights on Heart's 'Fight or Flight' Response to Stress
• Spitz Receives Grant to Study Potential Cancer Treatment
• UI Study Suggests Salt Might Be 'Nature's Antidepressant'

Week of March 16, 2009

• Child Life Month
• Welsh Named Founding Director of UI Institute for Biomedical Discovery
• Health for Your Lifetime: Women's Bladder Health: Through The Years
• Study Links Inflammation and Calcium Signaling in Heart Attack
  

Week of March 9, 2009

• State Health Registry Provides Latest Information on Cancer in Iowa
• Great Iowa Nurses List Includes 18 UI Hospitals and Clinics Nurses
• Colon Cancer-Get Screened
• 'Miracle Child'

Week of March 2, 2009

• 'Freaks' Help Scientist Unravel Nature and Nurture
• UI/VA Team Studies Effect Of Exercise on Cognition in Parkinson's Disease
• New Surgical Implant Tested at UI Prevents Total Blindness

Week of February 23, 2009

• Growing old—the healthy way
• UI Expert: Macular Degeneration Merits Another Look
• NIH Awards $10.4 Million Grant to UI Cardiovascular Research Center
• UI Researcher Helps Catch 'Calcium Flickers' in Action

Week of February 16, 2009

• Remembering Is Not a Simple Task
• Health For Your Life Time
• UI Dance Marathon Exceeds $1 Million
• Effects of Smoking Linked to Accelerated Aging Protein

Week of February 9, 2009

• Heart SOS
• Massage Oasis: Win-win
• Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
• Enzyme's Role in Arrhythmias

Week of February 2, 2009

• UI Brain Researchers Win Major Neuroscience Award
• UI Dance Marathon: Call for Kids Radiothon
• American Heart Association Sponsors National Wear Red Day: One Day a Year: Take Action to Fight Heart Disease
• Too Much Sun

Week of January 26, 2009

• Not For Children
• Sex Difference on Spatial Skill Test Linked to Brain Structure
• Raise Breast Cancer Awareness

Week of January 19, 2009

• Radon Expert Urges Testing During National Radon Action Month
• Parents and Teens Battle Obesity Together
• Former HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan to Lecture at UI
• Nursing Professionals Magazine Releases 2009 'Top 100 Hospitals to Work For' List

Week of January 12, 2009

• Three UI Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows
• Go Red Sunday
• Leslie Named Head of UI Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• UI Neurosurgeon Leads Efforts to Advance Evidence-based Cancer Care

Week of January 5, 2009

• UI Children's Hospital Ranks in the Nation's Top 25
• Rare Disease Provides Clues About Enzyme Role in Arrhythmias
• New Large Bore MRI Technology Enhances Imaging Results and Patient Comfort
• UI Researchers Receive American Cancer Society Seed Grants
• Heart Failure Lifeline