Kirkwood Community College and the University of Iowa (UI) are partnering to offer a four-year Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) Bachelor of Science degree, beginning this fall. The MLS program will help address a major workforce shortage of medical laboratory scientists. Demand for medical laboratory scientists is expected to rise by 5% over the next decade, resulting in an estimated 24,000 job…

Continuing a long tradition of innovation to advance treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF), University of Iowa researchers led by Paul McCray Jr., MD, were part of a team that developed a new gene editing approach to correct the most common CF-causing mutation. In collaboration with researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University led by David Liu, PhD, McCray and his colleagues…

A new study suggests that certain drugs commonly used to treat enlarged prostate may also decrease the risk for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). This observational finding may seem surprising, but it mirrors previous work by the University of Iowa Health Care team that links the drugs to a protective effect in another neurodegenerative condition–Parkinson's disease. The UI researchers think that…

Interventional psychiatry refers to a subspecialty centered on the use of new and emerging technologies to treat mental health disorders associated with dysfunctional brain circuitry. At the University of Iowa, this includes researchers and clinicians in psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery with expertise in procedures such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS),…

As a University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine student on her pediatric nephrology rotation, Lyndsay Harshman (11MD, 14F, 18MS) noticed something about her young patients. Many children who had undergone kidney transplant later struggled to adhere to their medications—a difficulty that could lead to devastating health outcomes. Harshman, whose interest in children’s brain development began…

Graduates of the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and their families and friends celebrated the college’s spring commencement ceremonies in May 2024. Share your photos and memories on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter using the hashtags #IowaMD2024 and #UIGrad2024.

Tick, tick. For people with epilepsy and their loved ones, sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is “a ticking time bomb that creates anxiety and fear,” says University of Iowa neurosurgeon Brian Dlouhy, MD (13R, 14F). As the name suggests, SUDEP happens when an otherwise healthy person with epilepsy dies suddenly and without a clear cause. It’s responsible for more than 3,000 deaths in the…