News Archive

November 2011

Aspirin use linked to reduced aneurysm rupture risk

A new study led by the University of Iowa and the Mayo Clinic suggests that regular use of aspirin may reduce the risk for rupture of intracranial aneurysms.

Childhood obesity does not permanently increase cardiovascular risk

An international study involving investigators in the UI College of Public Health and the Carver College of Medicine found that people who were overweight or obese during childhood but of normal weigh...

New UI cancer clinic offers improved efficiency, comfort

A new $12 million cancer clinic at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will bring Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center physicians and researchers together and create a more comfortable and efficien...

State of the College address to be delivered November 29

Everyone working, learning, and volunteering with UI Health Care is invited to the State of the College Address Tuesday, November 29.

Study explains how heart attack can lead to heart rupture

For people who initially survive a heart attack, a significant cause of death in the next few days is cardiac rupture -- literally, bursting of the heart wall.

Study identifies protein that helps measles virus spread

Measles is one of the most highly contagious diseases in the world and is spread when an infected person coughs or sneezes, expelling clouds of aerosolized virus particles.

UI receives $1.4 million grant to study sudden death in epilepsy

George Richerson, M.D., Ph.D., professor and head of the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa, recently received a $1.4 million research grant to investigate the causes, predictors, and m...

UI researcher receives funding to study glaucoma in dogs

A University of Iowa vision researcher has been awarded an $87,480 grant to study genetic markers of glaucoma in dogs, with hopes the research will bring him closer to identifying markers in humans wi...

UI study tests ketogenic diet for lung and pancreatic cancers

Researchers with UI Health Care have received a two-year, $340,023 grant from the National Cancer Institute to investigate whether a ketogenic diet can increase the effectiveness of radiation and chem...