UI Health Care News by Specialty: Internal Medicine

• General Internal Medicine
• Geriatrics (Gerontology)
• Environmental and Occupational Health

• Abboud, Heistad Honored by American Heart Association (December 3, 2007)
• UI Awarded $33.8 Million for Clinical and Translational Research (September 24, 2007)
• UI Researchers Urge Caution When Using Dietary Supplements (August 13, 2007)
• Broderick Named UI Palliative Care Director (July 30, 2007)
• UI, Mayo Clinic Announce Lymphoma Research Grant Extension (July 23, 2007)
• American Gastroenterology Association Honors Two UI Doctors (July 9, 2007)
• UI Study Shows Race Affects Heart Attack Care for Medicare Patients Across U.S. (June 25, 2007)
• Melanie Bloom's Seminar on DVT is Scheduled for April 16 (April 2, 2007)
• UI Researchers Are Part of an International, Multi-center Emphysema Project (March 26, 2007)
• Community Seminar to Focus on Advances in Heart Imaging (February 12, 2007)
• New Dual-chamber Heart Pacing Device Could Lead to Improvements for Heart Failure Patients (January 22, 2007)
• UI Study: Adults Living with Children Eat More Fat (January 15, 2007)
• UI Study Gives Clues About How Deadly Bacterium Gains Foothold (December 25, 2006)
• Newly Discovered Immune Defense May Be Impaired in Cystic Fibrosis Airways (December 11, 2006)
• UI Scientists Explore Function of "Junk DNA" (November 27, 2006)
• UI Physician Accepts Heart Care Honor (November 27, 2006)
• Abboud to Receive AAMC Distinguished Research Award (November 6, 2006)
• UI Health Care Researchers to Study Cardiac Stem Cells (October 23, 2006)
• Study Identifies Protein that Inhibits HIV from Growing in Cell Cultures (October 16, 2006)
• Faculty Members Recognized (October 16, 2006)
• UI Receives Cardiac Care, Bariatric Surgery Distinctions (September 25, 2006)
• UI Specialists to Join Walk from Obesity Event (September 11, 2006)
• UI Experts Add to Growing Warnings About Asthma Drug (August 28, 2006)
• Jane Scheer Looks Back on 23 Years with The University of Iowa (August 28, 2006)
• Simulator Offers Heart Failure Sensations, Information (August 21, 2006)
• UI Study: Large Feeding Operations Near Schools May Pose Asthma Risk (July 31, 2006)
• Medicare Could Save Money and Provide More Defibrillators (July 10, 2006)
• UI Center to Focus on Therapeutics Use, Effectiveness Among Elderly (July 3, 2006)
• UI Researchers Help Show Heart Technology Benefits (July 3, 2006)
• UI Hospitals and Clinics Helps Lead Life Saving Campaign (June 26, 2006)
• NIH Selects UI to Test Modified Bird Flu Vaccine (March 20, 2006)
• Rao Selected To Receive International Gastroenterology Award (March 13, 2006)
• AED: Instant Help for Heart Attack Victims (February 27, 2006)
• Heart Problems Are Not Limited to Adults-Babies Have Them Too (February 20, 2006)
• UI Participates in Women's Health Initiative Dietary Study (February 20, 2006)
• Glucose Control Cuts Risk of Heart Disease in Type 1 Diabetes (January 23, 2006)
• UI Heart and Vascular Center Experts Discuss Heart Failure and Its Treatment (January 23, 2006)
• UI Team Uses Gene Silencing to Correct Movement Disorder (December 26, 2005)
• $10 Million NIH Grant Renewal Funds UI Lung Imaging Research (December 19, 2005)
• UI Offers Tips on Managing Diabetes During the Holidays (December 12, 2005)
• UI Heart and Vascular Center Installs Iowa's First Remote Heart Monitoring Technology (November 28, 2005)
• UI Heart and Vascular Center Specialists First in State to Place Special Stent (November 14, 2005)
• Anderson and Cohen Appointed to Departmental Chairs (November 14, 2005)
• November is Diabetic Eye Disease Month (November 14, 2005)
• UI Physicians Perform World's First Magnetic Lung Surgery (October 17, 2005)
• Too Much Iron in Your Body Is Harmful (August 8, 2005)
• Mary Wilson Appointed to the Kate Daum Professorship (July 4, 2005)
• UI Hospitals and Clinics Leaders to Chair Institute of Medicine Groups (July 4, 2005)
• High Blood Pressure — The Silent Killer (June 20, 2005)
• New UI Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Approved by Board of Regents (June 20, 2005)
• Anderson Named Director of UI Division of Cardiology (May 30, 2005)
• An Ounce of Prevention (May 16, 2005)
• UI Researchers Improve Huntington's Disease Symptoms in Mice (May 2, 2005)
• UI Study Compares Specialty Cardiac Hospitals and General Hospitals (May 2, 2005)
• Combination of Traditional and Alternative Therapies Helps Patient Survive Cancer (April 18, 2005)
• Lawry Honored by Iowa Chapter of American College of Physicians (April 4, 2005)
• UI Heart and Vascular Center opens new service at UI Family Care Center, North Liberty (February 28, 2005)
• Heartburn is an Uncomfortable Inconvenience Rather than a Medical Problem (February 14, 2005)
• Go Red for Women Raises Awareness of Cardiovascular Disease in Women (January 31, 2005)

Environmental and Occupational Health

• UI Research Shows Bacteria in Household Dust May Trigger Asthma Symptoms (September 26, 2005)

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